The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
—Yves Saint Laurent, 1978
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The law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.
—Voltairine de Cleyre, 1890To escape its wretched lot, the populace has three ways, two imaginary and one real. The first two are the rum shop and the church; the third is the social revolution.
—Mikhail Bakunin, 1871There is no man so fortunate that there shall not be by him when he is dying some who are pleased with what is going to happen.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 175Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands, and goes to work.
—Carl Sandburg, 1959The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.
—André Breton, 1937Don’t hit a man at all if you can avoid it, but if you have to hit him, knock him out.
—Theodore Roosevelt, 1916Lord, I do not ask that thou shouldst give me wealth; only show me where it is, and I will attend to the rest.
—Kate Douglas Wiggin, 1898The U.S. presidency is a Tudor monarchy plus telephones.
—Anthony Burgess, 1972The happiness of society is the end of government.
—John Adams, 1776Death keeps no calendar.
—George Herbert, 1640I used to do drugs. I still do, but I used to, too.
—Mitch Hedberg, 1999The thirsty earth soaks up the rain, / And drinks, and gapes for drink again.
—Abraham Cowley, 1656