You should never have your best trousers on when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.
—Henrik Ibsen, 1882
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When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
—St. Jerome, 395The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do.
—B.F. Skinner, 1969The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.
—Luis Buñuel, 1983The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
—Charles Darwin, 1871He who laugheth too much, hath the nature of a fool; he that laugheth not at all, hath the nature of an old cat.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732Our nature lies in movement; complete calm is death.
—Blaise Pascal, c. 1640Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1886They are trying to make me into a fixed star. I am an irregular planet.
—Martin Luther, c. 1530The people are the foundation of the state. If the foundations are firm, the state will be tranquil.
—Classic of History, c. 400 BCHe makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
—Molière, 1666There are times when reality becomes too complex for oral communication. But legend gives it a form by which it pervades the whole world.
—Jean-Luc Godard, 1965It is men who make a city, not walls or ships.
—Thucydides, 410 BC