Who sleepeth with dogs shall rise with fleas.
—John Florio, 1578
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The misfortune of the man of color is having been enslaved. The misfortune and inhumanity of the white man are having killed man somewhere.
—Frantz Fanon, 1952In the name of Hippocrates doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.
—Luis Buñuel, 1983My ideas are clear. My orders are precise. Within five years, Rome must appear marvelous to all the people of the world—vast, orderly, powerful, as in the time of the empire of Augustus.
—Benito Mussolini, 1929Every fool becomes a philosopher after ten days of rain.
—Clover Adams, 1882Our entire history is merely the history of the waking life of man; nobody has yet considered the history of his sleeping life.
—Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, c. 1780One’s friends are divided into two classes, those one knows because one must and those one knows because one mustn’t.
—Sybil Taylor, 1922I’ve never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It’s probably because they have forgotten their own.
—Margaret Atwood, 1976The history of the land has been written very largely in water.
—John Hodgdon Bradley Jr., 1935A traveler’s chief aim should be to make men wiser and better, and to improve their minds by the bad—as well as good—example of what they deliver concerning foreign places.
—Jonathan Swift, 1726We and the dead ride quick at night.
—Gottfried August Bürger, 1773A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.
—Charles Baudelaire, 1852He who has nothing has no friends.
—Greek proverb