Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.
—Plautus, c. 200 BC
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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
—Virginia Woolf, 1929Time, when it is left to itself and no definite demands are made on it, cannot be trusted to move at any recognized pace. Usually it loiters, but just when one has come to count upon its slowness, it may suddenly break into a wild irrational gallop.
—Edith Wharton, 1905It’s your business when your neighbor’s wall is in flames.
—Horace, 19 BCNo man has any natural authority over his fellow man.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762Whoever expects to walk peacefully in the world must be money’s guest.
—Norman O. Brown, 1959While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact.
—Andrea Dworkin, 1983Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be.
—William Hazlitt, 1819A school without grades must have been concocted by someone who was drunk on nonalcoholic wine.
—Karl Kraus, 1909It is a greater advantage to be honestly educated than honorably born.
—Erasmus, 1518Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
—E.B. White, 1944Nothing is hidden from the eyes of the observing world.
—Aleksandr Pushkin, 1837An American will build a house in which to pass his old age and sell it before the roof is on.
—Alexis de Tocqueville, 1840