Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
—Henry Kissinger, 1972
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I’ve been on more laps than a napkin.
—Mae WestThe self is like an infant: given free rein, it craves to suckle.
—al-Busiri, c. 1250I came upon no wine, / So wonderful as thirst.
—Edna St. Vincent Millay, 1923Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will—whatever we may think.
—Lawrence Durrell, 1957Little folks become their little fate.
—Horace, c. 20 BCScience is a cemetery of dead ideas.
—Miguel de Unamuno, 1913Written laws are like spiderwebs: they will catch, it is true, the weak and poor but would be torn in pieces by the rich and powerful.
—Anacharsis, c. 550 BCThe world began without man, and it will end without him.
—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1955Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations—wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.
—Edmund Burke, 1795Usually speaking, the worst-bred person in company is a young traveler just returned from abroad.
—Jonathan Swift, c. 1730Keep running after a dog, and he will never bite you.
—François Rabelais, 1535Childhood knows what it wants—to leave childhood behind.
—Jean Cocteau, 1947