I have sometimes thought that the laws ought not to punish those actions of evil which are committed when the senses are steeped in intoxication.
—Walt Whitman, 1842
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I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless tourists.
—Brigitte Bardot, 1989A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world as a public indecency.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1615Much money makes a country poor, for it sets a dearer price on every thing.
—George Herbert, 1640No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called games.
—W.H. Auden, 1962Plagues are as certain as death and taxes.
—Richard Krause, 1982Being offended is the natural consequence of leaving one’s home.
—Fran Lebowitz, 1981Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
—Zora Neale Hurston, 1937The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.
—Germaine Greer, 1970All technologies should be assumed guilty until proven innocent.
—David Brower, 1992One of the important requirements for learning how to cook is that you also learn how to eat.
—Julia Child, 2001Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1938If 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. 1330