Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1928
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Man is always a wizard to man, and the social world is at first magical.
—Jean-Paul Sartre, 1939Modern life is often a mechanical oppression, and liquor is the only mechanical relief.
—Ernest Hemingway, 1935Children and fools cannot lie.
—John Heywood, 1546What a glut of books! Who can read them? As already, we shall have a vast chaos and confusion of books; we are oppressed with them, our eyes ache with reading, our fingers with turning.
—Robert Burton, 1621Soldiers in peace are like chimneys in summer.
—William Cecil, Lord Burghley, c. 1555He who has nothing has no friends.
—Greek proverbBe temperate in wine, in eating, girls, and sloth, or the Gout will seize you.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1734Nature never breaks her own laws.
—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1500It is so difficult not to become vain about one’s own good luck.
—Simone de Beauvoir, 1963I imagined it was more difficult to die.
—Louis XIV, 1715Disease is not of the body but of the place.
—Latin proverbWhat, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him your celebration is a sham.
—Frederick Douglass, 1855