The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
—Virginia Woolf, 1921
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Why is not a rat as good as a rabbit? Why should men eat shrimps and neglect cockroaches?
—Henry Ward Beecher, 1862Make the revolution a parent of settlement and not a nursery of future revolutions.
—Edmund Burke, 1790Speak and speed; the close mouth catches no flies.
—Benjamin Franklin, c. 1732Cooking is the most massive rush. It’s like having the most amazing hard-on, with Viagra sprinkled on top of it, and it’s still there twelve hours later.
—Gordon Ramsey, 2003All that we know is nothing can be known.
—Lord Byron, 1812Those who go overseas find a change of climate, not a change of soul.
—Horace, c. 20 BCIf a king loves music, there is little wrong in the land.
—Mencius, c. 330 BCWe 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 BCThe more laws, the more lawbreakers.
—Tao Te Ching, c. 500 BCMusic melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
—Anaïs Nin, 1939There is no work of human hands which time does not wear away and reduce to dust.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 46 BCI love everyone now that I have gray hair.
—Polatkin, c. 1855