Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, / And say my glory was I had such friends.
—W.B. Yeats, 1937
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Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.
—Samuel Johnson, c. 1770I do not mean to call an elephant a vulgar animal, but if you think about him carefully, you will find that his nonvulgarity consists in such gentleness as is possible to elephantine nature—not in his insensitive hide, nor in his clumsy foot, but in the way he will lift his foot if a child lies in his way; and in his sensitive trunk, and still more sensitive mind, and capability of pique on points of honor.
—John Ruskin, 1860You are dust, and to dust you shall return.
—Book of Genesis, c. 800 BCThe only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. And I knew we’d get into that rotten stuff pretty soon. Probably at the next gas station.
—Hunter S. Thompson, 1971If the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet.
—Charles M. Allen, 1967People react to fear, not love—they don’t teach that in Sunday school, but it’s true.
—Richard Nixon, 1975I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast, for I intend to go in harm’s way.
—John Paul Jones, 1778The most may err as grossly as the few.
—John Dryden, 1681Every man takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
—Jonathan Swift, 1706I am a friend of the workingman, and I would rather be his friend than be one.
—Clarence Darrow, 1932Nothing but a permanent body can check the imprudence of democracy.
—Alexander Hamilton, 1787