The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
—Virginia Woolf, 1921
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Human happiness never remains long in the same place.
—Herodotus, c. 430 BCThe most radical revolutionary will become a conservative on the day after the revolution.
—Hannah Arendt, 1970What mighty contests rise from trivial things.
—Alexander Pope, 1712Physician, heal yourself: thus you help your patient too. Let his best help be to see with his own eyes the man who makes himself well.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, c. 1884Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
—James Baldwin, 1961I cannot but bless the memory of Julius Caesar, for the great esteem he expressed for fat men and his aversion to lean ones.
—David Hume, 1751When man wanted to make a machine that would walk, he created the wheel, which does not resemble a leg.
—Guillaume Apollinaire, 1917The play is the tragedy “Man,” And its hero the conqueror worm.
—Edgar Allan Poe, 1843In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.
—Michel Foucault, 1975It is permitted to learn even from an enemy.
—Ovid, c. 8My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.
—Allen Ginsberg, 1981If I played in New York, they’d name a candy bar after me.
—Reggie Jackson, 1976