Carnal embrace is the practice of throwing one’s arms around a side of beef.
—Tom Stoppard, 1993
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One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats.
—Iris Murdoch, 1978Doing research on the web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly.
—Roger Ebert, 1998In the past, men created witches; now they create mental patients.
—Thomas Szasz, 1970A dissolute and intemperate youth hands down the body to old age in a worn-out state.
—Cicero, 44 BCThose who are awake have a world that is one and common, but each of those who are asleep turns aside into his own particular world.
—Heraclitus, c. 500 BCLife is no way to treat an animal.
—Kurt Vonnegut, 2005Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made—through disobedience and through rebellion.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891A friend who is very near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.
—George Ade, 1902Now there is fame! Of all—hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public—fame is by far the worst. It is the castigation by God of the artist. It is sad. It is true.
—Pablo Picasso, c. 1961How like to us is that filthy beast the ape.
—Cicero, 45 BCOne must love people a good deal whom one takes pains to convince or instruct.
—Mary de la Riviere Manley, 1720Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
—Ulysses S. Grant, 1877