All the married heiresses I have known have shipwrecked.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1880
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Thanks to the interstate highway system, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything.
—Charles Kuralt, c. 1980’Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1595I have often said that if I wish to name-drop, I have only to list my ex-friends.
—Norman Podhoretz, 1999Reality is always the foe of famous names.
—Petrarch, 1337The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. And I knew we’d get into that rotten stuff pretty soon. Probably at the next gas station.
—Hunter S. Thompson, 1971Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903When a coward sees a man he can beat, he becomes hungry for a fight.
—Chinua Achebe, 1960Resorting to the law to resolve a dispute is a declaration of spiritual bankruptcy.
—Quentin Crisp, 1984Good men must not obey the laws too well.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
—Alexander Pope, 1709God seems to have left the receiver off the hook, and time is running out.
—Arthur Koestler, 1967Time robs us of all, even of memory.
—Virgil, c. 40 BC