To outwit an enemy is not only just and glorious but profitable and sweet.
—Plutarch, c. 100
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As usual, what we call “progress” is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.
—Havelock Ellis, 1914Why is a ship under sail more poetical than a hog in a high wind? The hog is all nature, the ship is all art.
—Lord Byron, 1821Nothing puzzles me more than time and space, and yet nothing puzzles me less, for I never think about them.
—Charles Lamb, 1810And then, sir, there is this consideration: that if the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up and, claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system.
—Samuel Johnson, 1791Exchange is no robbery.
—German proverbIf 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, 1894Before the earth could become an industrial garbage can, it had first to become a research laboratory.
—Theodore Roszak, 1972Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
—Cormac McCarthy, 1992The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
—Virginia Woolf, 1921To cast aside obedience, and by popular violence to incite revolt, is treason, not against man only, but against God.
—Pope Leo XIII, 1885Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.
—Albert Einstein, 1929On the loftiest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own rump.
—Michel de Montaigne, 1580