I was born at a very early age. Before I had time to regret it, I was four and a half years old.
—Groucho Marx, 1959
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Is it a fact—or have I dreamed it—that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating thousands of miles in a breathless point of time?
—Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1851The march of the human mind is slow.
—Edmund Burke, 1775My language is the common prostitute that I turn into a virgin.
—Karl Kraus, c. 1910Charity is murder and you know it.
—Dorothy Parker, 1956Two crimes undid me: a poem and a mistake.
—Ovid, 10The earth is beautiful and bright and kindly, but that is not all. The earth is also terrible and dark and cruel.
—Ursula K. Le Guin, 1970The sick man is the parasite of society.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1889Politics, n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906Plough deep while sluggards sleep.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1758There is nothing sillier than a silly laugh.
—Catullus, c. 60 BCAlone, alone, all, all alone, / Alone on a wide, wide sea!
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1798Intolerance is evidence of impotence.
—Aleister Crowley, c. 1925