Communities do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1863
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Until you’ve lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.
—Margaret Mitchell, 1936Few sons are equal to their fathers; most fall short, all too few surpass them.
—Homer, c. 750 BCUsually speaking, the worst-bred person in company is a young traveler just returned from abroad.
—Jonathan Swift, c. 1730If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
—Mark Twain, 1894In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.
—Michel Foucault, 1975War to the castles; peace to the cottages.
—Nicolas Chamfort, 1790Jokes are grievances.
—Marshall McLuhan, 1969Television has made dictatorship impossible, but democracy unbearable.
—Shimon Peres, 1995As matron and mistress will differ in temper and tone, so will the friend be distinct from the faithless parasite.
—Horace, c. 20 BCA miracle entails a degree of irrationality—not because it shocks reason, but because it makes no appeal to it.
—Emmanuel Lévinas, 1952Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
—Gore Vidal, 1981Money is mourned with deeper sorrow than friends or kindred.
—Juvenal, 128