The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1908
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The brain is an unreliable organ, it is monstrously great, monstrously developed. Swollen, like a goiter.
—Aleksandr Blok, c. 1920There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.
—Kathleen Norris, 1931Anyone who has a child should train him to be either a physicist or a ballet dancer. Then he’ll escape.
—W.H. Auden, 1947It belongs to a nobleman to weep in an hour of disaster.
—Euripides, 412 BCThink where man’s glory most begins and ends, / And say my glory was I had such friends.
—W.B. Yeats, 1937No one’s serious at seventeen.
—Arthur Rimbaud, 1870We should not say that one man’s hour is worth another man’s hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing; he is, at most, time’s carcass.
—Karl Marx, 1847Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
—Lucretius, c. 58 BCThe snotgreen sea. The scrotumtightening sea.
—James Joyce, 1922Everyone complains about his memory, and no one complains about his judgment.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1666Curse on all laws but those which love has made.
—Alexander Pope, 1717A broken friendship may be soldered but will never be sound.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732