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The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

—G.K. Chesterton, 1908

The brain is an unreliable organ, it is monstrously great, monstrously developed. Swollen, like a goiter.

—Aleksandr Blok, c. 1920

There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

—Kathleen Norris, 1931

Anyone who has a child should train him to be either a physicist or a ballet dancer. Then he’ll escape.

—W.H. Auden, 1947

It belongs to a nobleman to weep in an hour of disaster.

—Euripides, 412 BC

Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, / And say my glory was I had such friends.

—W.B. Yeats, 1937

No one’s serious at seventeen.

—Arthur Rimbaud, 1870

We 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, 1847

Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.

—Lucretius, c. 58 BC

The snotgreen sea. The scrotumtightening sea.

—James Joyce, 1922

Everyone complains about his memory, and no one complains about his judgment.

—La Rochefoucauld, 1666

Curse on all laws but those which love has made.

—Alexander Pope, 1717

A broken friendship may be soldered but will never be sound.

—Thomas Fuller, 1732