I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.
—Ray Bradbury, 1992
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Dread attends the unknown.
—Nadine Gordimer, 1998Idolatry is the mother of all games.
—Novatian, c. 255Charity is murder and you know it.
—Dorothy Parker, 1956The sea hath no king but God alone.
—Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1881A miracle drug is any drug that will do what the label says it will do.
—Eric Hodgins, 1964Do you suppose that will change the sense of the morals, the fact that we can’t use morals as a means of judging the city because we couldn’t stand it? And that we’re changing our whole moral system to suit the fact that we’re living in a ridiculous way?
—Philip Johnson, 1965The only evidence, so far as I know, about another life is, first, that we have no evidence; and, secondly, that we are rather sorry that we have not, and wish we had.
—Robert G. Ingersoll, 1879Good fortune is light as a feather, but nobody knows how to hold it up. Misfortune is heavy as the earth, but nobody knows how to stay out of its way.
—Zhuangzi, c. 300 BCIn the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.
—Mark Twain, 1897The world is dying of machinery; that is the great disease, that is the plague that will sweep away and destroy civilization; man will have to rise against it sooner or later.
—George Moore, 1888A multitude of small delights constitute happiness.
—Charles Baudelaire, 1897God walks among the pots and pans.
—Saint Teresa of Ávila, c. 1582