One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
—Oscar Wilde, 1895
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The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. And I knew we’d get into that rotten stuff pretty soon. Probably at the next gas station.
—Hunter S. Thompson, 1971Fashion, n. A despot whom the wise ridicule and obey.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1911By night an atheist half believes a God.
—Edward Young, c. 1745Everybody says it; and what everybody says must be true.
—James Fenimore Cooper, 1844Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.
—George Eliot, 1857Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.
—Aleister Crowley, 1904No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
—Abraham LincolnThe thirsty earth soaks up the rain, / And drinks, and gapes for drink again.
—Abraham Cowley, 1656Tell us your phobias and we will tell you what you are afraid of.
—Robert Benchley, 1935All attempts to adapt our ethical code to our situation in the technological age have failed.
—Max Born, 1968Tomorrow we take to the mighty sea.
—Horace, 23 BCThe money we have is the means to liberty; that which we pursue is the means to slavery.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, c. 1770