I’ve got some shit I’m conservative about and some shit I’m liberal about. Crime—I’m conservative. Prostitution—I’m liberal.
—Chris Rock, 2008
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I am dying with the help of too many physicians.
—Alexander the Great, c. 323 BCTwo things only the people anxiously desire, bread and the circus games.
—Juvenal, c. 121There is no greater disaster than not to know contentment.
—Laozi, c. 550 BCThose from whom we were born have long since departed, and those with whom we grew up exist only in memory. We, too, through the approach of death, become, as it were, trees growing on the sandy bank of a river.
—Bhartrihari, c. 400A friend who is very near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.
—George Ade, 1902An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 1746Men were born to lie, and women to believe them.
—John Gay, 1728In every man is a wild beast; most of them don’t know how to hold it back, and the majority give it full rein when they are not restrained by terror of law.
—Frederick the Great, 1759This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are asked; unasked, they will never desist.
—Horace, c. 35 BCIf the people be the governors, who shall be governed?
—John Cotton, c. 1636The only function of a school is to make self-education easier.
—Isaac Asimov, 1974God seems to have left the receiver off the hook, and time is running out.
—Arthur Koestler, 1967