What man was ever content with one crime?
—Juvenal, c. 125
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The waters are nature’s storehouse, in which she locks up her wonders.
—Izaak Walton, 1653Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
—Sammy Davis Jr., 1965You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.
—Mario Cuomo, 1985The mind is led on, step by step, to defeat its own logic.
—Dai Vernon, 1994Ours is an age which consciously pursues health, and yet only believes in the reality of sickness.
—Susan Sontag, 1963The workers are the saviors of society, the redeemers of the race.
—Eugene V. Debs, 1905What is life but organized energy?
—Arthur C. Clarke, 1958All revolutions devour their own children.
—Ernst Röhm, 1933Slang 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, 1859Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
—Henry Kissinger, 1972It is noble to die before doing anything that deserves death.
—Anaxandrides, c. 376Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.
—Agnes Repplier, 1916