The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
—Laurence Sterne, 1760
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I have sometimes thought that the laws ought not to punish those actions of evil which are committed when the senses are steeped in intoxication.
—Walt Whitman, 1842If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater, suggest that he wear a tail.
—Fran Lebowitz, 1981Nature’s rules have no exceptions.
—Herbert Spencer, 1851Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need—a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing.
—Jerome K. Jerome, 1889Being offended is the natural consequence of leaving one’s home.
—Fran Lebowitz, 1981Great cities must ever be centers of light and darkness, the home of the best and the worst of our race, holding within themselves the highest talent for good and evil.
—Matthew Hale Smith, 1868It is shameful and inhuman to treat men like chattels to make money by, or to regard them merely as so much muscle or physical power.
—Pope Leo XIII, 1891History is a people’s memory, and without a memory man is demoted to the level of the lower animals.
—Malcolm X, 1964You can put wings on a pig, but you don’t make it an eagle.
—Bill Clinton, 1996Good men must not obey the laws too well.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein, c. 1947Great inventors and discoverers seem to have made their discoveries and inventions, as it were, by the way, in the course of their everyday life.
—Elizabeth Charles, 1862