Anyone who’s never watched somebody die is suffering from a pretty bad case of virginity.
—John Osborne, 1956
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Speak without regard for the consequences, and it is too late for silence when disaster strikes.
—Huan Kuan, 81 BCBy and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.
—Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1955Egypt was the mother of magicians.
—Clement of Alexandria, c. 200The law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.
—Voltairine de Cleyre, 1890No nation was ever ruined by trade.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1774The greatest veneration one can show the law is to keep a watch on it.
—Nadine Gordimer, 1971It is not too much to expect that our children will enjoy in their homes electrical energy too cheap to meter.
—Lewis Strauss, 1954It was lonesome, the leaving.
—Wetatonmi, c. 1877Two crimes undid me: a poem and a mistake.
—Ovid, 10Seek not water, only show you are thirsty, / That water may spring up all around you.
—Rumi, c. 1260We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea—whether it is to sail or to watch it—we are going back whence we came.
—John F. Kennedy, 1962For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?
—Jane Austen, 1813