In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1878
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A maid that laughs is half taken.
—John Ray, 1670The god of music dwelleth out of doors.
—Edith M. Thomas, 1887Most men employ the first years of their life in making the last miserable.
—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.
—Samuel Johnson, c. 1770Drugs, cataplasms, and whiskey are stupid substitutes for the dignity and potency of divine mind and its efficacy to heal.
—Mary Baker Eddy, 1908A fool and water will go the way they are diverted.
—Ethiopian proverbEvery man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
—Henry Kissinger, 1972There are truths that prove their discoverers witless.
—Karl Kraus, 1909I prefer liberty with unquiet to slavery with quiet.
—Sallust, c. 35 BCMy mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968