Greeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water.
—Zadie Smith, 2000
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Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891A crust of bread and a corner to sleep in / A minute to smile and an hour to weep in.
—Paul Laurence Dunbar, 1895To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.
—Walter Pater, 1873Not all heads have a brain.
—French proverbBid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear.
—William Shakespeare, 1592When one has a famishing thirst for happiness, one is apt to gulp down diversions wherever they are offered.
—Alice Hegan Rice, 1917The oldest voice in the world is the wind.
—Donald Culross Peattie, 1950Drive your cart and your plow over the bones of the dead.
—William Blake, c. 1790Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.
—Voltaire, 1769Your body is the church where nature asks to be reverenced.
—Marquis de Sade, 1797Cheating is more honorable than stealing.
—German proverb