I never yet could make out why men are so fond of hunting; they often hurt themselves, often spoil good horses, and tear up the fields—and all for a hare or a fox or a stag that they could get more easily some other way.
—Anna Sewell, 1877
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The world is wearied of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1870In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: they must be fit for it; they must not do too much of it; and they must have a sense of success in it.
—John Ruskin, 1850Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
—Frank Zappa, 1989Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
—Herman Melville, 1851my mind is
a big hunk of irrevocable nothing
Tomorrow never comes, man. It’s all the same fucking day.
—Janis Joplin, 1972The doctor occupies a seat in the front row of the stalls of the human drama, and is constantly watching and even intervening in the tragedies, comedies, and tragicomedies which form the raw material of the literary art.
—W. Russell Brain, 1952Memories are like corks left out of bottles. They swell. They no longer fit.
—Harriet Doerr, 1978Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.
—J. Paul GettyWhatever the pace of this technological revolution may be, the direction is clear: the lower rungs of the economic ladder are being lopped off.
—Bayard Rustin, 1965Almsgiving tends to perpetuate poverty; aid does away with it once and for all.
—Eva Perón, 1949Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be.
—William Hazlitt, 1819