The three little sentences that will get you through life. Number 1: Cover for me. Number 2: Oh, good idea, Boss! Number 3: It was like that when I got here.
—Nell Scovell, 1991
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Youth, youth, springtime of beauty.
—Anthem of the National Fascist Party, c. 1924Animals are good to think with.
—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1962Man has here two and a half minutes—one to smile, one to sigh, and half a one to love; for in the midst of this minute he dies.
—Jean Paul, 1795It hurts to watch the fluency of a body acclimated to its shackling.
—Leslie Jamison, 2014Men take diseases, one of another. Therefore let men take heed of their company.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1600The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative on the day after the revolution.
—Hannah Arendt, 1970Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.
—W. Somerset Maugham, 1896In the society of men, the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not. Our social realities are so ugly if seen in the light of exiled truth, and beauty is almost no longer possible if it is not a lie.
—R.D. Laing, 1967Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.
—Samuel Johnson, c. 1770Why listen to me? I can only predict epidemics and plagues.
—Larry Kramer, 1992As peace is of all goodness, so war is an emblem, a hieroglyphic, of all misery.
—John Donne, 1622Everyone else is represented in Washington by a rich and powerful lobby, it seems. But there is no lobby for the people.
—Shirley Chisholm, 1970