You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation.
—Billie Holiday, 1956
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There are many civil questions that arise between individuals in which it is not so important the controversy be settled one way or another as that it be settled.
—William Howard Taft, 1921The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family.
—Paul Johnson, 1989Commerce tends to wear off those prejudices which maintain distinction and animosity between nations.
—William Robertson, 1769The envious die not once, but as often as the envied win applause.
—Baltasar Gracián, 1647Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.
—William Morris, 1882Till taught by pain, / Men really know not what good water’s worth.
—Lord Byron, 1819Curse on all laws but those which love has made.
—Alexander Pope, 1717Happiness does not dwell in herds, nor yet in gold.
—Democritus, c. 420 BCDemocracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891Friendship itself will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
—Robert Wilson Lynd, 1924The body says what words cannot.
—Martha Graham, 1985If there is a word in the dictionary under any letter from A to Z that I abominate, it is energy.
—Charles Dickens, 1865