A good dog, sir, deserves a good bone.
—Ben Jonson, 1633
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Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.
—Kate Moss, 2009The right to the pursuit of happiness is nothing else than the right to disillusionment phrased in another way.
—Aldous Huxley, 1956It is no longer a government of the people, by the people, and for the people, but a government of Wall Street, by Wall Street, and for Wall Street.
—Mary Lease, c. 1890Fashion, n. A despot whom the wise ridicule and obey.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1911The fear of war is worse than war itself.
—Seneca, c. 50The life of a sailor is very unhealthy.
—Francis Galton, 1883All of life is a foreign country.
—Jack Kerouac, 1949Till taught by pain, / Men really know not what good water’s worth.
—Lord Byron, 1819Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
—Samuel Johnson, 1750I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
—Zsa Zsa GaborAn irreligious man is not one who denies the gods of the majority, but one who applies to the gods the opinions of the majority. For what most men say about the gods are not ideas derived from sensation, but false opinions, according to which the greatest evils come to the wicked, and the greatest blessings come to the good from the gods.
—Epicurus, c. 250 BCIf there was ever a just war since the world began, it is this in which America is now engaged.
—Thomas Paine, 1778