Jokes are grievances.
—Marshall McLuhan, 1969
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Nobody, sir, dies willingly.
—Antiphanes, c. 370 BCSo long as one believes in God, one has the right to do the Good in order to be moral.
—Jean-Paul Sartre, c. 1950Business? Why, it’s very simple; business is other people’s money.
—Alexandre Dumas, 1857Make human nature your study wherever you reside—whatever the religion or the complexion, study their hearts.
—Ignatius Sancho, 1778Good men must not obey the laws too well.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations—wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.
—Edmund Burke, 1795Don’t ever wear artistic jewelry; it wrecks a woman’s reputation.
—Colette, 1944The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.
—James Fenimore Cooper, 1838It is not a case we are treating; it is a living, palpitating, alas, too often suffering fellow creature.
—John Brown, 1904The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.
—Sigmund Freud, 1912The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.
—Hermann Hesse, 1950Man and animals are really the conduit of food, the sepulcher of animals, and resting place of the dead, one causing the death of the other, making themselves the covering for the corruption of other dead bodies.
—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1500