Revolution begins in putting on bright colors.
—Tennessee Williams, 1944
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There’s plenty of fire in the coldest flint!
—Rachel Field, 1939One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.
—Oscar Wilde, 1894Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
—Saint Augustine, c. 400Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1776There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1891The 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, 1971Revolution can never be forecast; it cannot be foretold; it comes of itself. Revolution is brewing and is bound to flare up.
—Vladimir Lenin, 1918Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
—Henry Kissinger, 1972Let the young know they will never find a more interesting, more instructive book than the patient himself.
—Giorgio Baglivi, c. 1696What a glut of books! Who can read them? As already, we shall have a vast chaos and confusion of books; we are oppressed with them, our eyes ache with reading, our fingers with turning.
—Robert Burton, 1621O flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified!
—William Shakespeare, c. 1596The law’s made to take care o’ raskills.
—George Eliot, 1860