A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world as a public indecency.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1615
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No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it.
—Andrea Dworkin, 1978The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do.
—B.F. Skinner, 1969Sex and drugs and rock and roll.
—Ian Dury, 1977I cannot but bless the memory of Julius Caesar, for the great esteem he expressed for fat men and his aversion to lean ones.
—David Hume, 1751To hide and feel guilty would be the beginning of defeat.
—Milan Kundera, 1978As the saying goes, an old woman is always uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb.
—Chinua Achebe, 1958Our allotted time is the passing of a shadow.
—Book of Wisdom, c. 100 BCImagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith.
—Henry Ward Beecher, 1887As he brews, so shall he drink.
—Ben Jonson, 1598Art imitates nature as well as it can, as a pupil follows his master; thus it is a sort of grandchild of God.
—Dante, c. 1315Two crimes undid me: a poem and a mistake.
—Ovid, 10Africa has her mysteries, and even a wise man cannot understand them. But a wise man respects them.
—Miriam Makeba, 1988