Lord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
—Jonathan Swift, 1738
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If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay in solid cash—the tribute which philistinism owes to culture, the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let us thank heaven for hypocrisy.
—Aldous Huxley, 1926Wants keep pace with wealth always.
—Timothy Titcomb, 1859The human mind is an evolutionary product, just like the human body.
—Tetsuro Matsuzawa, 2010Shame on the soul, to falter on the road of life while the body still perseveres.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170Of all the creatures that breathe and creep on the surface of the earth, none is more to be pitied than man.
—Homer, c. 750 BCA cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
—Ouida, 1880Nature is the art of God.
—Thomas Browne, 1635No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
—Bertrand Russell, 1961It is a luxury to be understood.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1831A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.
—Jane Austen, 1814In times of pestilence, gaiety and joyousness are most profitable.
—Jacme d’Agramont, 1348Hygienic law, like martial law, supersedes rights in crises.
—Samuel Hopkins Adams, 1913