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Quotes

I used to do drugs. I still do, but I used to, too.

—Mitch Hedberg, 1999

Every man has a lurking wish to appear considerable in his native place.

—Samuel Johnson, 1771

Idolatry is the mother of all games.

—Novatian, c. 255

The gratitude is greater than the gift.

—Pierre Corneille, 1641

Cities are the abyss of the human species.

—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762

Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.

—Joseph Joubert, 1811

And what will history say of me a thousand years hence?

—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 59 BC

Doing research on the web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly.

—Roger Ebert, 1998

Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.

—W.H. Auden, c. 1940

A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world as a public indecency.

—Miguel de Cervantes, 1615

Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do.

—Rudy Giuliani, 1999

I won’t be happy till I’m as famous as God.

—Madonna, c. 1985

Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.

—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1819