It’s your business when your neighbor’s wall is in flames.
—Horace, 19 BC
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You can steal a lot more with a computer than with a gun.
—Gina Smith, 1997The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
—Virginia Woolf, 1921He who laugheth too much, hath the nature of a fool; he that laugheth not at all, hath the nature of an old cat.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732Water, thou hast no taste, no color, no odor; canst not be defined, art relished while ever mysterious.
—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 1939The vice presidency isn’t worth a pitcher of warm piss.
—John Nance Garner, c. 1967There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1891The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
—Saint Augustine, c. 390Every communist must grasp the truth: “Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.”
—Mao Zedong, 1938One of the animals which a generous and sociable man would soonest become is a dog. A dog can have a friend; he has affections and character; he can enjoy equally the field and the fireside; he dreams, he caresses, he propitiates; he offends and is pardoned; he stands by you in adversity; he is a good fellow.
—Leigh Hunt, 1834The future, like everything else, is no longer quite what it used to be.
—Paul Valéry, 1931Religion! How it dominates man’s mind, how it humiliates and degrades his soul. God is everything, man is nothing, says religion. But out of that nothing God has created a kingdom so despotic, so tyrannical, so cruel, so terribly exacting that naught but gloom and tears and blood have ruled the world since gods began.
—Emma Goldman, 1910Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth but not its twin.
—Barbara Kingsolver, 1990