In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.
—Mark Twain, 1897
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Shame on the soul, to falter on the road of life while the body still perseveres.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170Worry over what has not occurred is a serious malady.
—Solomon ibn Gabirol, 1050We possess art lest we perish of the truth.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1887Childhood knows what it wants—to leave childhood behind.
—Jean Cocteau, 1947Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
—John Berger, 1972Friendship’s a noble name, ’tis love refined.
—Susanna Centlivre, 1703Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
—Tom Robbins, 1976Before the earth could become an industrial garbage can, it had first to become a research laboratory.
—Theodore Roszak, 1972Jesters do oft prove prophets.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1605The newspaper is the natural enemy of the book, as the whore is of the decent woman.
—Edmond and Jules de Goncourt, 1858Does anybody really want to attend to cities other than to flee, fleece, privatize, butcher, or decimate them?
—Jane Holtz Kay, 1992I’ve seen the future, brother; it is murder.
—Leonard Cohen, 1992