To love a woman who scorns you is to lick honey from a thorn.
—Welsh proverb
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Our crime against criminals is that we treat them as villains.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1898Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
—Mark Twain, 1893Journalists belong in the gutter, because that is where the ruling classes throw their guilty secrets.
—Gerald Priestland, 1988When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.
—Chinese proverb’Tis not a ridiculous devotion to say a prayer before a game at tables?
—Thomas Browne, 1642The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
—George Santayana, 1905The things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist.
—Ernest Hemingway, 1929In the society of men, the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not. Our social realities are so ugly if seen in the light of exiled truth, and beauty is almost no longer possible if it is not a lie.
—R.D. Laing, 1967It is not my design to drink or sleep; my design is to make what haste I can to be gone.
—Oliver Cromwell, 1658Jests and scoffs do lessen majesty and greatness and should be far from great personages and men of wisdom.
—Henry Peacham, 1622I proclaim night more truthful than the day.
—Léopold Sédar Senghor, 1956The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.
—Maya Angelou, 1986