As bad a dresser as I am, anything beats being judged by my character.
—David Sedaris, 1997
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Nothing is hidden from the eyes of the observing world.
—Aleksandr Pushkin, 1837Alas! We are ridiculous animals.
—Horace Walpole, 1777Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god.
—Jean Rostand, 1939Education—a debt due from present to future generations.
—George Peabody, 1852Trade is a social act.
—John Stuart Mill, 1859I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast, for I intend to go in harm’s way.
—John Paul Jones, 1778No one wins a quarrel by quarreling.
—German proverbIf my books had been any worse I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better I should not have come.
—Raymond Chandler, 1945When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.
—Chinese proverbThe power which the sea requires in the sailor makes a man of him very fast, and the change of shores and population clears his head of much nonsense of his wigwam.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1870Journalists belong in the gutter, because that is where the ruling classes throw their guilty secrets.
—Gerald Priestland, 1988Where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
—George Santayana, c. 1905