Those who travel heedlessly from place to place, observing only their distance from each other and attending only to their accommodation at the inn at night, set out fools, and will certainly return so.
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 1747
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A fool and water will go the way they are diverted.
—Ethiopian proverbA functioning police state needs no police.
—William S. Burroughs, 1959Even a paranoid can have enemies.
—Henry Kissinger, 1977The important thing, I think, is not to be bitter. You know, if it turns out that there is a God, I don’t think that he’s evil. I think that the worst thing you could say about him is that basically he’s an underachiever. After all, you know, there are worse things in life than death.
—Woody Allen, 1975Petty laws breed great crimes.
—Ouida, 1880Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.
—Woody Allen, 1979Under the wide and starry sky, / Dig the grave and let me lie.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1887Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
—Frank Zappa, c. 1975On the loftiest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own rump.
—Michel de Montaigne, 1580By the blessing of the upright the city is exalted, but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 350 BCI shall be an autocrat: that’s my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that’s his.
—Catherine the Great, c. 1796When nature is overriden, she takes her revenge.
—Marya Mannes, 1958