Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
—Sammy Davis Jr., 1965
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Enemies to me are the sauce piquant to my dish of life.
—Elsa Maxwell, 1955Moderation in all things.
—Terence, 166 BCThe slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
—Henry Fielding, 1730The man in constant fear is every day condemned.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BCThere is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.
—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1898If there is a word in the dictionary under any letter from A to Z that I abominate, it is energy.
—Charles Dickens, 1865Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.
—Jane Austen, 1818There are two times in a man’s life when he should not speculate: when he can’t afford it, and when he can.
—Mark Twain, 1897Sport is the bloom and glow of a perfect health.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1838Is all our fire of shipwreck wood?
—Robert Browning, 1862No law is sufficiently convenient to all.
—Roman proverbNature never breaks her own laws.
—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1500