Every thought is, strictly speaking, an afterthought.
—Hannah Arendt, 1978
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The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1615There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink.
—Booth Tarkington, 1914I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas and land on barbarous coasts.
—Herman Melville, 1853Reputation, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others.
—Douglas Jerrold, 1840God is a complex of ideas formed by the tribe, the nation, and humanity, which awake and organize social feelings and aim to link the individual to society and to bridle the zoological individualism.
—Maxim Gorky, 1913Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
—George Washington, 1796God is alive. Magic is afoot.
—Leonard Cohen, 1966You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation.
—Billie Holiday, 1956The sea receives us in a proper way only when we are without clothes.
—Pliny the Elder, 77The drunken man is a living corpse.
—St. John Chrysostom, c. 390No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called games.
—W.H. Auden, 1962We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament and embrace it with passion if we want to be happy.
—Cyril Connolly, 1944