Quotes

I used to do drugs. I still do, but I used to, too.

—Mitch Hedberg, 1999

In the past, men created witches; now they create mental patients.

—Thomas Szasz, 1970

I have always found it in mine own experience an easier matter to devise many and profitable inventions than to dispose of one of them to the good of the author himself.

—Hugh Plat, 1595

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

—Tom Robbins, 1976

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

—Woody Allen, 1979

And what will history say of me a thousand years hence?

—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 59 BC

One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

—André Gide, 1926

New things are always ugly.

—Willa Cather, 1921

The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.

—Basho, c. 1690

Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.

—George Orwell, 1944

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

—Jean-Paul Sartre, 1943

Alas! We are ridiculous animals.

—Horace Walpole, 1777

I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.

—Gore Vidal, 1973

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