The best moment of love is when the lover leaves in the taxi.
—Michel Foucault, c. 1982
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For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.
—Richard Feynman, 1986Man must be doing something, or fancy that he is doing something, for in him throbs the creative impulse; the mere basker in the sunshine is not a natural, but an abnormal man.
—Henry George, 1879Ah, there are no children nowadays.
—Molière, 1673We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.
—Oscar Wilde, 1887A criminal may improve and become a decent member of society. A foreigner cannot improve. Once a foreigner, always a foreigner. There is no way out for him.
—George Mikes, 1946We should not say that one man’s hour is worth another man’s hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing; he is, at most, time’s carcass.
—Karl Marx, 1847Necessity knows no law except to conquer.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BCThere is a sickness among tyrants: they cannot trust their friends.
—Aeschylus, c. 458 BCRevolutions are always verbose.
—Leon Trotsky, 1933Fate leads the willing and drags along those who hang back.
—Cleanthes, c. 250 BCHealth indeed is a precious thing, to recover and preserve which we undergo any misery, drink bitter potions, freely give our goods—restore a man to his health, his purse lies open to thee.
—Robert Burton, 1621I mean, why on earth (outside sickness and hangovers) aren’t people continually drunk? I want ecstasy of the mind all the time.
—Jack Kerouac, 1957