Curse on all laws but those which love has made.
—Alexander Pope, 1717
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Cooking is the most massive rush. It’s like having the most amazing hard-on, with Viagra sprinkled on top of it, and it’s still there twelve hours later.
—Gordon Ramsey, 2003Though the boys throw stones at frogs in sport, yet the frogs do not die in sport but in earnest.
—Bion of Smyrna, c. 100 BCRevolutions never go backward.
—Thomas Skidmore, 1829Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
—Erica Jong, 1973You cannot endow even the best machine with initiative; the jolliest steamroller will not plant flowers.
—Walter Lippmann, 1913Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury—to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
—Albert Einstein, 1931Is all our fire of shipwreck wood?
—Robert Browning, 1862You can put wings on a pig, but you don’t make it an eagle.
—Bill Clinton, 1996We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us but for ours to amuse them.
—Evelyn Waugh, 1963People revere the Constitution yet know so little about it—and that goes for some of my fellow senators.
—Robert Byrd, 2005Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
—Albert Camus, c. 1940The greatest veneration one can show the law is to keep a watch on it.
—Nadine Gordimer, 1971