Laws, like houses, lean on one another.
—Edmund Burke, 1765
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Think rich. Look poor.
—Andy Warhol, 1975Nature is the art of God.
—Thomas Browne, 1635Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
—Erica Jong, 1973History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.
—Theodor Adorno, c. 1946The mind is led on, step by step, to defeat its own logic.
—Dai Vernon, 1994Methinks the human method of expression by sound of tongue is very elementary and ought to be substituted for some ingenious invention which should be able to give vent to at least six coherent sentences at once.
—Virginia Woolf, 1899Vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
—Ecclesiastes, c. 250 BCArt, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1928After midnight the moon set and I was alone with the stars. I have often said that the lure of flying is the lure of beauty, and I need no other flight to convince me that the reason flyers fly, whether they know it or not, is the aesthetic appeal of flying.
—Amelia Earhart, 1935Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
—E.M. Forster, 1951In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you’re told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.
—Simon Hoggart, 1990Every creature in the world is like a book and a picture, to us, and a mirror.
—Alain de Lille, c. 1200