Friendship! Sir, there can be no such thing without an equality.
—George Farquhar, 1702
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‘Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1860Childhood has no forebodings—but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.
—George Eliot, 1860The things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist.
—Ernest Hemingway, 1929It is the little causes, long continued, which are considered as bringing about the greatest changes of the earth.
—James Hutton, 1795The law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.
—Voltairine de Cleyre, 1890If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater, suggest that he wear a tail.
—Fran Lebowitz, 1981Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense—nonsense upon stilts.
—Jeremy Bentham, c. 1832A fair complexion is unbecoming to a sailor: he ought to be swarthy from the waters of the sea and the rays of the sun.
—Ovid, c. 1 BCThou art not to learn the humors and tricks of that old bald cheater, time.
—Ben Jonson, 1601The universe is an object of thought at least as much as it is a means of satisfying needs.
—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1962Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1665Technology is so much fun, but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.
—Daniel Boorstin, 1978