Vox populi, vox humbug.
—William Tecumseh Sherman, 1863
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Every ass thinks himself worthy to stand with the king’s horses.
—Gnomologia, 1732Commerce tends to wear off those prejudices which maintain distinction and animosity between nations.
—William Robertson, 1769The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
—Virginia Woolf, 1921The one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.
—Salvador Dalí, 1953Democracy, like the human organism, carries within it the seed of its own destruction.
—Veronica Wedgwood, 1946Wants keep pace with wealth always.
—Timothy Titcomb, 1859All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
—Plotinus, c. 255Animals are such agreeable friends—they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
—George Eliot, 1857God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
—John Lennon, 1970Friendship is a plant that loves the sun—thrives ill under clouds.
—Bronson Alcott, 1872All men recognize the right of revolution, that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable.
—Henry David Thoreau, 1849The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1908