A jest breaks no bones.
—Samuel Johnson, 1781
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A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.
—Ralph Nader, 2000The period of a [Persian] boy’s education is between the ages of five and twenty, and he is taught three things only: to ride, to use the bow, and to speak the truth.
—Herodotus, c. 440 BCMaking a film means, first of all, to tell a story. That story can be an improbable one, but it should never be banal. It must be dramatic and human. What is drama, after all, but life with the dull bits cut out?
—Alfred Hitchcock, 1962A fool and water will go the way they are diverted.
—Ethiopian proverbI’m afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.
—Aldous Huxley, 1925What is outside my mind means nothing to it.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170My face looks like a wedding cake left out in the rain.
—W.H. Auden, c. 1967Disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body.
—Thomas Mann, 1924Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.
—Jane Austen, 1811Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion to vice.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, c. 45 BCCooking is the most massive rush. It’s like having the most amazing hard-on, with Viagra sprinkled on top of it, and it’s still there twelve hours later.
—Gordon Ramsey, 2003Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.
—Socrates, c. 430 BC