Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.
—William Makepeace Thackeray, 1847
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Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t.
—William Shakespeare, 1603If we wait for a pandemic to appear, it will be too late to prepare.
—George W. Bush, 2005A hick town is one where there is no place to go where you shouldn’t go.
—Alexander Woollcott, c. 1935Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1819The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin.
—Heinrich Heine, 1827A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.
—Amiri Baraka, 1962Democracy, like the human organism, carries within it the seed of its own destruction.
—Veronica Wedgwood, 1946The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative on the day after the revolution.
—Hannah Arendt, 1970According to the law of custom, and perhaps of reason, foreign travel completes the education of an English gentleman.
—Edward Gibbon, c. 1794We cannot say what the woman might be physically, if the girl were not allowed all the freedom of the boy in romping, climbing, swimming, playing whoop and ball.
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1848Can you draw sweet water from a foul well?
—Brooks Atkinson, 1940God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style. He just goes on trying other things.
—Pablo Picasso, 1964