Jokes are grievances.
—Marshall McLuhan, 1969
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The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.
—André Gide, 1927A good dog, sir, deserves a good bone.
—Ben Jonson, 1633Water its living strength first shows, / When obstacles its course oppose.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1815Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1871The best augury of a man’s success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.
—George Eliot, 1876Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.
—Rosa Luxemburg, 1918Such then is the human state, that to wish greatness for one’s country is to wish harm to one’s neighbors.
—Voltaire, 1764Iron may break gold, but water remains whole.
—Ge Hong, c. 300I looked and there was a pale green horse! Its rider’s name was Death, and Hades followed with him.
—Book of Revelations, c. 90Let the young know they will never find a more interesting, more instructive book than the patient himself.
—Giorgio Baglivi, c. 1696Every man is worth just so much as the things he busies himself with.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 175Can you draw sweet water from a foul well?
—Brooks Atkinson, 1940