An ape will be an ape, though clad in purple.
—Erasmus, 1511
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A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
—Arthur Miller, 1961Attacks on me will do no harm, and silent contempt is the best answer to them.
—James Monroe, 1808It seems to me that we all look at nature too much and live with her too little.
—Oscar Wilde, 1897The elephant, although a gross beast, is yet the most decent and most sensible of any other upon earth. Although he never changes his female, and hath so tender a love for her whom he hath chosen, yet he never couples with her but at the end of every three years, and then only for the space of five days.
—St. Francis de Sales, 1609The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.
—Germaine Greer, 1970Keep running after a dog, and he will never bite you.
—François Rabelais, 1535Don’t you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up?
—D.H. Lawrence, 1920Don’t lose your mind unless you have paid for it.
—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957All people have the common desire to be elevated in honor, but all people have something still more elevated in themselves without knowing it.
—Mencius, c. 330 BCLife is no way to treat an animal.
—Kurt Vonnegut, 2005Peace is a natural effect of trade.
—Montesquieu, 1748Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear.
—William Shakespeare, 1592