I imagine that one of the first forms of behavior, like one of the first signals, may be reduced to this: “Keep me warm.”
—Michel Serres, 1982
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When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.
—Ursula K. Le Guin, 1969When nature is overriden, she takes her revenge.
—Marya Mannes, 1958After all, crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor.
—John Huston, 1950Governments are not overthrown by the poor, who have no power, but by the rich—when they are insulted by their inferiors and cannot obtain justice.
—Dionysius of Halicarnassus, c. 20 BCNobody, sir, dies willingly.
—Antiphanes, c. 370 BCIn my dreams I sleep with everybody.
—Anaïs Nin, 1933Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
—Lucretius, c. 58 BCI have been ever of the opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1844The highest result of education is tolerance.
—Helen Keller, 1903Wherever commerce prevails there will be an inequality of wealth, and wherever the latter does a simplicity of manners must decline.
—James Madison, 1783A good dog, sir, deserves a good bone.
—Ben Jonson, 1633As the saying goes, an old woman is always uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb.
—Chinua Achebe, 1958