For most of us, nighttime dreaming brings us closer to our identities and our power than any activity in the waking world.
—Walter Mosley, 2000
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Every country has the government it deserves.
—Joseph de Maistre, 1811Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
—Pablo Neruda, 1924Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it.
—Robert Wilson, 1991Disease is not of the body but of the place.
—Latin proverbUsually speaking, the worst-bred person in company is a young traveler just returned from abroad.
—Jonathan Swift, c. 1730The more laws, the more lawbreakers.
—Tao Te Ching, c. 500 BCIf the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet.
—Charles M. Allen, 1967Sooner or later if the activity of the mind is restricted anywhere, it will cease to function even where it is allowed to be free.
—Edith Hamilton, 1930Love lasteth as long as the money endureth.
—William Caxton, 1476I’m at an age when my back goes out more than I do.
—Phyllis Diller, 1981In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.
—Mark Twain, 1897Happiness (as the mathematicians might say) lies on a curve, and we approach it only by asymptote.
—Christopher Morley, 1919