If one hears bad music, it is one’s duty to drown it by conversation.
—Oscar Wilde, 1890
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Life is no way to treat an animal.
—Kurt Vonnegut, 2005It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
—Dolores Ibárruri, 1936Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion to vice.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, c. 45 BCFear has a smell, as love does.
—Margaret Atwood, 1972Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls, and sloth, or the Gout will seize you.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1734Understanding is a very dull occupation.
—Gertrude Stein, 1937The vice presidency isn’t worth a pitcher of warm piss.
—John Nance Garner, c. 1967To hide and feel guilty would be the beginning of defeat.
—Milan Kundera, 1978Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1839We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.
—Anna Sewell, 1877God sells us all things at the price of labor.
—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1500I ride rough waters and shall sink with no one to save me.
—Virginia Woolf, 1931