Very shy people don’t even want to take up the space that their body actually takes up.
—Andy Warhol, 1975
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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
—H.G. Wells, 1905An irreligious man is not one who denies the gods of the majority, but one who applies to the gods the opinions of the majority. For what most men say about the gods are not ideas derived from sensation, but false opinions, according to which the greatest evils come to the wicked, and the greatest blessings come to the good from the gods.
—Epicurus, c. 250 BCHe laughs best who laughs last.
—French proverbA friend in power is a friend lost.
—Henry Adams, 1905I love everyone now that I have gray hair.
—Polatkin, c. 1855Well now, there’s a remedy for everything except death.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605No free man shall be taken or imprisoned or dispossessed or outlawed or exiled, or in any way destroyed, nor will we go upon him, nor will we send against him except by the lawful judgment of his peers or by the law of the land.
—Magna Carta, 1215A world is sooner destroyed than made.
—Thomas Burnet, 1684Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
—Mao Zedong, 1938The various modes of religion which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true, by the philosophers equally false, and by the magistrate as equally useful.
—Edward Gibbon, 1776God is alive. Magic is afoot.
—Leonard Cohen, 1966One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats.
—Iris Murdoch, 1978