Peace is a natural effect of trade.
—Montesquieu, 1748
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Some nights are like honey—and some like wine—and some like wormwood.
—L.M. Montgomery, 1927It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.
—Marguerite Duras, 1987Happiness is no laughing matter.
—Richard Whately, 1843Whenever in history equality appeared on the agenda, it was exported somewhere else, like an undesirable.
—Mary McCarthy, 1971Give me chastity and continence, but not just now.
—Saint Augustine, 397If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
—Mark Twain, 1894My face looks like a wedding cake left out in the rain.
—W.H. Auden, c. 1967I want to be the white man’s brother, not his brother-in-law.
—Martin Luther King Jr., 1962The only places where American medicine can fully live up to its possibilities are the teaching hospitals.
—Bernard De Voto, 1951Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve and from which he cannot escape.
—Erich Fromm, 1947The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851Idolatry is the mother of all games.
—Novatian, c. 255