People who’ve drunk neat wine don’t care a damn.
—Hipponax, c. 550 BC
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Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1871It is hell to belong to a suppressed minority.
—Claude McKay, 1937Infectious disease is one of the few genuine adventures left in the world.
—Hans Zinsser, 1935Nobody works as hard for his money as the man who marries it.
—Kin HubbardIf you find excrement somewhere in the village, the chief was the one who put it there.
—Congolese proverbEvery man is worth just so much as the things he busies himself with.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 175One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1911The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education. School is where you go between when your parents can’t take you and industry can’t take you.
—John Updike, 1963You furnish the pictures, and I’ll furnish the war.
—William Randolph Hearst, 1898Living is an ailment that is relieved every sixteen hours by sleep. A palliative. Death is the cure.
—Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, c. 1790The future is no more uncertain than the present.
—Walt Whitman, 1856To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the need for thought.
—Henri Poincaré, 1903