Living is an ailment that is relieved every sixteen hours by sleep. A palliative. Death is the cure.
—Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, c. 1790
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Tell us your phobias and we will tell you what you are afraid of.
—Robert Benchley, 1935Corporations have neither bodies to be punished nor souls to be damned.
—Chinese proverbI was born at a very early age. Before I had time to regret it, I was four and a half years old.
—Groucho Marx, 1959Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, / And say my glory was I had such friends.
—W.B. Yeats, 1937Speech is the mirror of the soul; as a man speaks, so is he.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BCHatred of domestic work is a natural and admirable result of civilization.
—Rebecca West, 1912The only authors whom I acknowledge as American are the journalists. They indeed are not great writers, but they speak the language of their countrymen, and make themselves heard by them.
—Alexis de Tocqueville, 1840An ugly sight, a man who’s afraid.
—Jean Anouilh, 1944If a king loves music, there is little wrong in the land.
—Mencius, c. 330 BCA miracle drug is any drug that will do what the label says it will do.
—Eric Hodgins, 1964I even gave up, for a while, stopping by the window of the room to look out at the lights and deep, illuminated streets. That’s a form of dying, that losing contact with the city like that.
—Philip K. Dick, 1972Every communist must grasp the truth: “Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.”
—Mao Zedong, 1938