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These useless men ought to be cut up and served at a banquet. I really believe that athletes have less intelligence than swine.
—Dio Chrysostom, c. 95One’s friends are divided into two classes, those one knows because one must and those one knows because one mustn’t.
—Sybil Taylor, 1922Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one’s bath like a lump of sugar.
—Pablo Picasso, 1929Does anybody really want to attend to cities other than to flee, fleece, privatize, butcher, or decimate them?
—Jane Holtz Kay, 1992The belly is the teacher of the arts and bestower of invention.
—Persius, c. 55Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
—Oscar Wilde, 1893Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.
—Margaret Mead, 1972Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.
—Kate Moss, 2009I cannot live without books, but fewer will suffice where amusement, and not use, is the only future object.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1815A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
—James Joyce, 1922What will not attract a man’s stare at sea?—a gull, a turtle, a flying fish!
—Richard Burton, 1883No nation was ever ruined by trade.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1774