Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
—Alexander Pope, 1709
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Other nations use “force”; we Britons alone use “might.”
—Evelyn Waugh, 1938Famous, adj. Conspicuously miserable.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906Show me someone who never gossips, and I’ll show you someone who isn’t interested in people.
—Barbara Walters, 1975What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him your celebration is a sham.
—Frederick Douglass, 1855The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them.
—Denis Diderot, 1777An ape will be an ape, though clad in purple.
—Erasmus, 1511Whoever has died is freed from sin.
—St. Paul, c. 50There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching toward him and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange.
—Elias Canetti, 1960Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea? How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.
—Sydney Smith, 1855Conservation is not merely a thing to be enshrined in outdoor museums, but a way of living on land.
—Aldo Leopold, 1933Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear.
—William Shakespeare, 1592Is there no way out of the mind?
—Sylvia Plath, 1962