In the past, men created witches; now they create mental patients.
—Thomas Szasz, 1970
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A family’s photograph album is generally about the extended family—and, often, is all that remains of it.
—Susan Sontag, 1977And to our age’s drowsy blood / Still shouts the inspiring sea.
—James Russell Lowell, 1848Lord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
—Jonathan Swift, 1738Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
—Albert Camus, c. 1940Sooner or later if the activity of the mind is restricted anywhere, it will cease to function even where it is allowed to be free.
—Edith Hamilton, 1930Shame on the soul, to falter on the road of life while the body still perseveres.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
—Henry Fielding, 1730If you steal, do not steal too much at a time. You may be arrested. Steal cleverly, little by little.
—Mobutu Sese Seko, 1991I never yet could make out why men are so fond of hunting; they often hurt themselves, often spoil good horses, and tear up the fields—and all for a hare or a fox or a stag that they could get more easily some other way.
—Anna Sewell, 1877God seems to have left the receiver off the hook, and time is running out.
—Arthur Koestler, 1967As to the sea itself, love it you cannot. Why should you? I will never believe again the sea was ever loved by anyone whose life was married to it. It is the creation of omnipotence, which is not of humankind and understandable, and so the springs of its behavior are hidden.
—H.M. Tomlinson, 1912Corporations have neither bodies to be punished nor souls to be damned.
—Chinese proverb