Enemies to me are the sauce piquant to my dish of life.
—Elsa Maxwell, 1955
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The one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.
—Salvador Dalí, 1953The only places where American medicine can fully live up to its possibilities are the teaching hospitals.
—Bernard De Voto, 1951Men are generally more pleased with a widespread than with a great reputation.
—Pliny the Younger, c. 110Drinking with women is as unnatural as scolding with ’em.
—William Wycherley, 1675Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous.
—Pierre Boulez, 1989Family! Thou art the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.
—August Strindberg, 1886There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of puritanism, and that is the impulse to punish the man with a superior capacity for happiness.
—H.L. Mencken, 1920For sooner will men hold fire in their mouths than keep a secret.
—Petronius, c. 60It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
—The BibleThe Mediterranean has the colors of a mackerel, changeable I mean. You don’t always know if it is green or violet—you can’t even say it’s blue, because the next moment the changing light has taken on a tinge of pink or gray.
—Vincent van Gogh, 1888The belly is the reason why man does not mistake himself for a god.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1886The life of the city never lets you go, nor do you ever want it to.
—Wallace Stevens, 1952