It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me.
—Martin Luther King Jr., 1962
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If I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend my life in driving briskly in a post-chaise with a pretty woman.
—Samuel Johnson, 1777I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
—Zsa Zsa GaborOn the loftiest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own rump.
—Michel de Montaigne, 1580I don’t believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
—Woody Allen, 1971For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven.
—Book of Ecclesiastes, c. 250 BCThe human body is the best picture of the human soul.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein, c. 1947I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?
—Lord Byron, 1813If there was ever a just war since the world began, it is this in which America is now engaged.
—Thomas Paine, 1778Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessions of happiness.
—André Gide, 1897The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1919To outwit an enemy is not only just and glorious but profitable and sweet.
—Plutarch, c. 100The beginning of health lies in knowing the disease.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1615