The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of a gun.
—P.G. Wodehouse, 1929
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There is nothing sillier than a silly laugh.
—Catullus, c. 60 BCDarkness endows the small and ordinary ones among mankind with poetical power.
—Thomas Hardy, 1874The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.
—Gaston Bachelard, 1960The law is established from above but becomes custom below.
—Su Zhe, c. 1100Everybody says it; and what everybody says must be true.
—James Fenimore Cooper, 1844The sea hath fish for every man.
—William Camden, 1605History is a people’s memory, and without a memory man is demoted to the level of the lower animals.
—Malcolm X, 1964A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always count on the support of Paul.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1944My stern chase after time is, to borrow a simile from Tom Paine, like the race of a man with a wooden leg after a horse.
—John Quincy Adams, 1844It’s the educated barbarian who is the worst: he knows what to destroy.
—Helen MacInnes, 1963Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
—John F. Kennedy, 1962The beginning of health lies in knowing the disease.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1615