Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.
—Saint Augustine, c. 387
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Spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings are strangely silent where once they were filled with the beauty of birdsong.
—Rachel Carson, 1962Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
—Joseph Stalin, 1934This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.
—Abraham Lincoln, 1861I’ve been on more laps than a napkin.
—Mae WestThere is no man so fortunate that there shall not be by him when he is dying some who are pleased with what is going to happen.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 175Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be breakthrough.
—R.D. Laing, 1967The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.
—Luis Buñuel, 1983Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
—Ecclesiastes, c. 250 BCThe only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.
—Anna Jameson, 1846The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit has made permanent.
—Marcel Proust, 1919Will and energy sometimes prove greater than either genius or talent or temperament.
—Isadora Duncan, c. 1902Living is an ailment that is relieved every sixteen hours by sleep. A palliative. Death is the cure.
—Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, c. 1790