Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.
—D.H. Lawrence, 1908
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If a patient is poor, he is committed to a public hospital as “psychotic”; if he can afford the luxury of a private sanitarium, he is put there with the diagnosis of “neurasthenia”; if he is wealthy enough to be isolated in his own home under constant watch of nurses and physicians, he is simply an indisposed “eccentric.”
—Pierre Marie Janet, 1930A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can’t think of anything else to do.
—W.H. Auden, 1946I was born at a very early age. Before I had time to regret it, I was four and a half years old.
—Groucho Marx, 1959Hoping for new friendship from old enemies is / Like expecting to find a rose in a furnace.
—Muhammad Baqir Najm-i Sani, 1612Some things are privileged from jest—namely, religion, matters of state, great persons, all men’s present business of importance, and any case that deserves pity.
—Francis Bacon, 1597God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees and flowers and clouds and stars.
—Martin LutherWords pay no debts.
—William Shakespeare, 1601Why is not a rat as good as a rabbit? Why should men eat shrimps and neglect cockroaches?
—Henry Ward Beecher, 1862Think rich. Look poor.
—Andy Warhol, 1975Information can tell us everything. It has all the answers. But they are answers to questions we have not asked, and which doubtless don’t even arise.
—Jean Baudrillard, c. 1987An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.
—James Russell Lowell, c. 1865The most may err as grossly as the few.
—John Dryden, 1681