A friend who is very near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.
—George Ade, 1902
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Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.
—W.H. Auden, c. 1940Attacks on me will do no harm, and silent contempt is the best answer to them.
—James Monroe, 1808Knowledge is an ancient error reflecting on its youth.
—Francis Picabia, 1949Emigration is easy, but immigration is something else. To flee, yes; but to be accepted?
—Victoria Wolff, 1943Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
—Cormac McCarthy, 1992Brains are the only things worth having in this world.
—L. Frank Baum, 1899As to the sea itself, love it you cannot. Why should you? I will never believe again the sea was ever loved by anyone whose life was married to it. It is the creation of omnipotence, which is not of humankind and understandable, and so the springs of its behavior are hidden.
—H.M. Tomlinson, 1912You must not grow used to making money out of everything. One sees more people ruined than one has seen preserved by shameful gains.
—Sophocles, c. 442 BCThe 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, 1963Intolerance is evidence of impotence.
—Aleister Crowley, c. 1925It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
—Dolores Ibárruri, 1936I sometimes think of what future historians will say of us. A single sentence will suffice for modern man: he fornicated and read the papers.
—Albert Camus, 1957