Don’t you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up?
—D.H. Lawrence, 1920
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There is only one antidote to mental suffering and that is physical pain.
—Karl Marx, 1860Even members of the nobility, let alone persons of no consequence, would do well not to have children.
—Yoshida Kenko, c. 1330Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.
—Margaret Mead, 1972A traveler’s chief aim should be to make men wiser and better, and to improve their minds by the bad—as well as good—example of what they deliver concerning foreign places.
—Jonathan Swift, 1726Jokes are grievances.
—Marshall McLuhan, 1969The more religious a country is, the more crimes are committed in it.
—Napoleon Bonaparte, 1817There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of puritanism, and that is the impulse to punish the man with a superior capacity for happiness.
—H.L. Mencken, 1920If I had the use of my body I would throw it out of the window.
—Samuel Beckett, 1951The pleasure we hold in esteem for the course of our lives ought to have a greater share of our time dedicated to it; we should refuse no occasion nor omit any opportunity of drinking, and always have it in our minds.
—Michel de Montaigne, 1580A great step toward independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.
—Seneca the Younger, c. 60You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she’ll be constantly running back.
—Horace, 20 BCArt transcends its limitations only by staying within them.
—Flannery O’Connor, 1964