I have sometimes thought that the laws ought not to punish those actions of evil which are committed when the senses are steeped in intoxication.
—Walt Whitman, 1842
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All moanday, tearsday, wailsday, thumpsday, frightday, shatterday till the fear of the Law.
—James Joyce, 1939At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
—W. Somerset Maugham, 1896Those who go overseas find a change of climate, not a change of soul.
—Horace, c. 20 BC’Tis not a ridiculous devotion to say a prayer before a game at tables?
—Thomas Browne, 1642Vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
—Ecclesiastes, c. 250 BCOne should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
—Oscar Wilde, 1895The less a man knows about the past and the present, the more insecure must prove to be his judgment of the future.
—Sigmund Freud, 1927The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative on the day after the revolution.
—Hannah Arendt, 1970Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
—Oscar Wilde, 1890Every man takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851Every ass thinks himself worthy to stand with the king’s horses.
—Gnomologia, 1732Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.
—Saint Augustine, c. 387