I want to be the white man’s brother, not his brother-in-law.
—Martin Luther King Jr., 1962
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Revolutions are not about trifles, but they are produced by trifles.
—Aristotle, c. 350 BCOne’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
—George Santayana, c. 1914An honest man is all right even if he’s an idiot…but a crook must have brains.
—Maxim Gorky, 1902Disease is not of the body but of the place.
—Latin proverbYou can steal a lot more with a computer than with a gun.
—Gina Smith, 1997At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
—W. Somerset Maugham, 1896The various modes of religion which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true, by the philosophers equally false, and by the magistrate as equally useful.
—Edward Gibbon, 1776Carnal embrace is the practice of throwing one’s arms around a side of beef.
—Tom Stoppard, 1993Envy is the basis of democracy.
—Bertrand Russell, 1930I tell you, there is such a thing as creative hate!
—Willa Cather, 1915If fame is only to come after death, I am in no hurry for it.
—Martial, c. 86Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
—Mark Twain, 1893