I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast, for I intend to go in harm’s way.
—John Paul Jones, 1778
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Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1947In psychoanalysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.
—Theodor Adorno, 1951All art is a revolt against man’s fate.
—André Malraux, 1951Nature resolves everything into its component elements, but annihilates nothing.
—Lucretius, c. 57 BCThe severity of a teacher is better than the love of a father.
—Saadi, 1258By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.
—Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1955Travel is like adultery: one is always tempted to be unfaithful to one’s own country. To have imagination is inevitably to be dissatisfied with where you live.
—Anatole Broyard, 1989It was funny how I could feel all alone and under surveillance at the same time.
—Cory Doctorow, 2013Family! Thou art the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.
—August Strindberg, 1886The world is made of the very stuff of the body.
—Maurice Merleau-Ponty, 1961Better a thousand enemies outside the house than one inside.
—Arabic proverbWe must confess that at present the rich predominate, but the future will be for the virtuous and ingenious.
—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688