One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
—E.B. White, 1977
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Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.
—G.C. Lichtenberg, c. 1780Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.
—George Orwell, 1944He laughs best who laughs last.
—French proverbIn peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.
—Herodotus, 440 BCWater is the first principle of everything.
—Thales of Miletus, c. 600 BCShips at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
—Zora Neale Hurston, 1937A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated has not the art of getting drunk.
—Samuel Johnson, 1779A merchant may, perhaps, be a man of an enlarged mind, but there is nothing in trade connected with an enlarged mind.
—Samuel Johnson, 1773The affairs of the world are no more than so much trickery, and a man who toils for money or honor or whatever else in deference to the wishes of others, rather than because his own desire or needs lead him to do so, will always be a fool.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1774The misfortune of the man of color is having been enslaved. The misfortune and inhumanity of the white man are having killed man somewhere.
—Frantz Fanon, 1952If I played in New York, they’d name a candy bar after me.
—Reggie Jackson, 1976All revolutions devour their own children.
—Ernst Röhm, 1933