Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets.
—Andy Warhol, 1975
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Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1735I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute, where no Catholic prelate would tell the president (should he be a Catholic) how to act and no Protestant minister would tell his parishioners for whom to vote.
—John F. Kennedy, 1960It is men who make a city, not walls or ships.
—Thucydides, 410 BCOne thing alone not even God can do: to make undone whatever has been done.
—Aristotle, c. 350 BCWorldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, now that, and changes names as it changes in direction.
—Dante Alighieri, c. 1315In dealing with the dead, if we treat them as if they were entirely dead, that would show a want of affection and should not be done; or, if we treat them as if they were entirely alive, that would show a want of wisdom and should not be done.
—Confucius, c. 500 BCDo we want laurels for ourselves most, / Or most that no one else shall have any?
—Amy Lowell, 1922What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains and studying night and day how to fly?
—William Law, 1728Business is other people’s money.
—Delphine de Girardin, 1852There is no work of human hands which time does not wear away and reduce to dust.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 46 BCA difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
—George Eliot, 1876One has to spend so many years in learning how to be happy.
—George Eliot, 1844