Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, / And say my glory was I had such friends.
—W.B. Yeats, 1937
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A tree’s a tree. How many more do you need to look at?
—Ronald Reagan, 1965Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.
—George Eliot, 1857Sex: in America, an obsession; in other parts of the world, a fact.
—Marlene Dietrich, 1962Emigration is easy, but immigration is something else. To flee, yes; but to be accepted?
—Victoria Wolff, 1943To blow and to swallow at the same time is not easy; I cannot at the same time be here and also there.
—Plautus, c. 200 BCFor a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.
—Richard Feynman, 1986When a coward sees a man he can beat, he becomes hungry for a fight.
—Chinua Achebe, 1960The vice presidency isn’t worth a pitcher of warm piss.
—John Nance Garner, c. 1967I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.
—Maya Angelou, 1993Under all speech that is good for anything, there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as eternity; speech is shallow as time.
—Thomas Carlyle, 1838A good dog, sir, deserves a good bone.
—Ben Jonson, 1633One form of loneliness is to have a memory and no one to share it with.
—Phyllis Rose, 1991