There is not so contemptible a plant or animal that does not confound the most enlarged understanding.
—John Locke, 1689
Archive
Quotes
If I see something sagging, dragging, or bagging, I’m going to go have the stuff tucked or plucked.
—Dolly Parton, 2003Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable desire to seek the truth.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 45 BCFear has a smell, as love does.
—Margaret Atwood, 1972Civilization, as we know it, is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
—Arnold Toynbee, 1948It is no longer a government of the people, by the people, and for the people, but a government of Wall Street, by Wall Street, and for Wall Street.
—Mary Lease, c. 1890Life is no way to treat an animal.
—Kurt Vonnegut, 2005A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
—Arthur Miller, 1961Knowledge is an ancient error reflecting on its youth.
—Francis Picabia, 1949What 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, 1621The home is a human institution. All human institutions are open to improvement.
—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1903We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us but for ours to amuse them.
—Evelyn Waugh, 1963In the country gossip is a pastime; in the city it is a warfare.
—W.M.L. Jay, 1870