Family! Thou art the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.
—August Strindberg, 1886
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On the loftiest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own rump.
—Michel de Montaigne, 1580I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1789I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.
—Samuel Johnson, 1773Living is an ailment that is relieved every sixteen hours by sleep. A palliative. Death is the cure.
—Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, c. 1790An electoral choice of ten different fascists is like choosing which way one wishes to die.
—George Jackson, 1971Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
—Bertrand Russell, 1930Alas! We are ridiculous animals.
—Horace Walpole, 1777What is the hardest task in the world? To think.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841Is there no way out of the mind?
—Sylvia Plath, 1962If you can’t go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.
—Margaret Atwood, 2005A good dog, sir, deserves a good bone.
—Ben Jonson, 1633There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.
—Francis Bacon, 1625