Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a centaur, a leopard, a wolf, or a bull?
—Aristophanes, 423 BC
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We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink, for dining alone is leading the life of a lion or wolf.
—Epicurus, c. 300 BCIf you must take care that your opinions do not differ in the least from those of the person with whom you are talking, you might just as well be alone.
—Yoshida Kenko, c. 1330No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called games.
—W.H. Auden, 1962Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.
—Gertrude Stein, 1940The only places where American medicine can fully live up to its possibilities are the teaching hospitals.
—Bernard De Voto, 1951The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.
—André Gide, 1927It is strange indeed that the more we learn about how to build health, the less healthy Americans become.
—Adelle Davis, 1951You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.
—Mario Cuomo, 1985You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.
—Leon TrotskyThose who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1755Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906How sickness enlarges the dimension of a man’s self to himself! He is his own exclusive object.
—Charles Lamb, 1833