The future comes like an unwelcome guest.
—Edmund Gosse, 1873
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To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.
—Jean Genet, 1949The U.S. presidency is a Tudor monarchy plus telephones.
—Anthony Burgess, 1972Some things are privileged from jest—namely, religion, matters of state, great persons, all men’s present business of importance, and any case that deserves pity.
—Francis Bacon, 1597Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls, and sloth, or the Gout will seize you.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1734Let us leave this Europe which never stops talking of Man yet massacres him at every one of its street corners, at every corner of the world.
—Frantz Fanon, 1961A merchant shall hardly keep himself from doing wrong.
—Ecclesiasticus, c. 180 BCAfrica has her mysteries, and even a wise man cannot understand them. But a wise man respects them.
—Miriam Makeba, 1988You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.
—Leon TrotskyI am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. War is hell.
—William Tecumseh Sherman, 1879It is more blessed to give than to receive.
—Acts of the Apostles, c. 80The best physician is he who can distinguish the possible from the impossible.
—Herophilus, c. 290 BCThe appointed thing comes at the appointed time in the appointed way.
—Myrtle Reed, 1910