Better no law than no law enforced.
—Danish proverb
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Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets.
—Andy Warhol, 1975There is a kind of revolution of so general a character that it changes the mental tastes as well as the fortunes of the world.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1665Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, now that, and changes names as it changes in direction.
—Dante Alighieri, c. 1315Jazz is the result of the energy stored up in America.
—George Gershwin, 1933I’ve been on more laps than a napkin.
—Mae WestAnyone who’s never experienced the pleasure of betrayal doesn’t know what pleasure is.
—Jean Genet, 1986Great cities must ever be centers of light and darkness, the home of the best and the worst of our race, holding within themselves the highest talent for good and evil.
—Matthew Hale Smith, 1868They exchange their home and sweet thresholds for exile, and seek under another sun another home.
—Virgil, c. 30 BCReason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
—George Washington, 1796Friendship itself will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
—Robert Wilson Lynd, 1924Someone will remember us
I say
even in another time.
No lyric poems live long or please many people which are written by drinkers of water.
—Horace, 20 BC