Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.
—G.C. Lichtenberg, c. 1780
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Envy is the basis of democracy.
—Bertrand Russell, 1930Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1921If we wait for a pandemic to appear, it will be too late to prepare.
—George W. Bush, 2005One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
—E.B. White, 1977Money is a language for translating the work of the farmer into the work of the barber, doctor, engineer, or plumber.
—Marshall McLuhan, 1964Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1928Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
—John F. Kennedy, 1962Where shall I, of wandering weary, find my resting place at last?
—Heinrich Heine, 1827The brain is an unreliable organ, it is monstrously great, monstrously developed. Swollen, like a goiter.
—Aleksandr Blok, c. 1920When poets don’t know what to say and have completely given up on the play, just like a finger, they lift the machine and the spectators are satisfied.
—Antiphanes, c. 350 BCWe do not suffer by accident.
—Jane Austen, 1813Night is torment. That is why people go to sleep. To avoid clear sight and torment.
—Dorothy M. Richardson, 1923