In psychoanalysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.
—Theodor Adorno, 1951
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God sells us all things at the price of labor.
—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1500In a true democracy, everyone can be upper-class and live in Connecticut.
—Lisa Birnbach, 1980Resorting to the law to resolve a dispute is a declaration of spiritual bankruptcy.
—Quentin Crisp, 1984He who dies of epidemic disease is a martyr.
—Muhammad, c. 630I do not mean to call an elephant a vulgar animal, but if you think about him carefully, you will find that his nonvulgarity consists in such gentleness as is possible to elephantine nature—not in his insensitive hide, nor in his clumsy foot, but in the way he will lift his foot if a child lies in his way; and in his sensitive trunk, and still more sensitive mind, and capability of pique on points of honor.
—John Ruskin, 1860Mother died today. Or maybe it was yesterday, I don’t know.
—Albert Camus, 1942Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a centaur, a leopard, a wolf, or a bull?
—Aristophanes, 423 BCThe best physician is he who can distinguish the possible from the impossible.
—Herophilus, c. 290 BCWhen law can do no right,
Let it be lawful that law bar no wrong.
Nobody works as hard for his money as the man who marries it.
—Kin HubbardNo punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes.
—Hannah Arendt, 1963All the married heiresses I have known have shipwrecked.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1880