What is outside my mind means nothing to it.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170
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Slang is as old as speech and the congregating together of people in cities. It is the result of crowding and excitement and artificial life.
—John Camden Hotten, 1859If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.
—Henry Clay, 1812The human working stock is of interest only insofar as it is profitable.
—Simone de Beauvoir, 1970The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
—Aristotle, c. 330 BCThe atavistic urge toward danger persists and its satisfaction is called adventure.
—John Steinbeck, 1941The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
—Virginia Woolf, 1921Friendship is not possible between two women, one of whom is very well dressed.
—Laurie Colwin, 1978The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure it is right.
—Judge Learned Hand, 1944When arms speak, the laws are silent.
—Cicero, 52 BCNo wise man ever wished to be younger.
—Jonathan Swift, 1706It is the little causes, long continued, which are considered as bringing about the greatest changes of the earth.
—James Hutton, 1795If people think Nature is their friend, then they sure don’t need an enemy.
—Kurt Vonnegut, 1988