Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do.
—Rudy Giuliani, 1999
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A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world as a public indecency.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1615Dread attends the unknown.
—Nadine Gordimer, 1998It was lonesome, the leaving.
—Wetatonmi, c. 1877There never is absolute birth nor complete death, in the strict sense, consisting in the separation of the soul from the body. What we call births are developments and growths, while what we call deaths are envelopments and diminutions.
—Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, 1714Family! Thou art the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.
—August Strindberg, 1886We should always presume the disease to be curable until its own nature proves it otherwise.
—Peter Mere Latham, c. 1845Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.
—Saint Augustine, c. 387A person who sees only fashion in fashion is a fool.
—Honoré de Balzac, 1830You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
—Cormac McCarthy, 2005For, say they, when cruising in an empty ship, if you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
—Herman Melville, 1851At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.
—Rose Macaulay, 1925I have loved the stars too truly to be fearful of the night.
—Sarah Williams, 1868