Man is a troublesome animal and therefore is not very manageable.
—Plato, c. 349 BC
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It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
—Thomas Hardy, 1874It costs a lot to make a person look this cheap.
—Dolly Parton, 1994Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny, they have only shifted it to another shoulder.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903War is the child of pride, and pride the daughter of riches.
—Jonathan Swift, 1697Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs only to the people who prepare for it today.
—Malcolm X, 1964Diseases, at least many of them, are like human beings. They are born, they flourish, and they die.
—David Riesman, 1937It is hell to belong to a suppressed minority.
—Claude McKay, 1937We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.
—Oscar Wilde, 1887The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.
—Vladimir Nabokov, 1941When they shout “Long live progress,” always ask, “Progress of what?”
—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957Animals are such agreeable friends—they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
—George Eliot, 1857I used to do drugs. I still do, but I used to, too.
—Mitch Hedberg, 1999