Too often, where we need water we find guns.
—Ban Ki-moon, 2008
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Wit enables us to act rudely with impunity.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1678I wants to make your flesh creep.
—Charles Dickens, 1837The most may err as grossly as the few.
—John Dryden, 1681My face looks like a wedding cake left out in the rain.
—W.H. Auden, c. 1967Man has here two and a half minutes—one to smile, one to sigh, and half a one to love; for in the midst of this minute he dies.
—Jean Paul, 1795There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891Better no law than no law enforced.
—Danish proverbWe must confess that at present the rich predominate, but the future will be for the virtuous and ingenious.
—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688Despotism achieves great things illegally; democracy doesn’t even take the trouble to achieve small things legally.
—Honoré de Balzac, 1831Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, c. 1940When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.
—Winston Churchill, 1945Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
—W.H. Auden, 1957