Very shy people don’t even want to take up the space that their body actually takes up.
—Andy Warhol, 1975
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One should always have one’s boots on and be ready to leave.
—Michel de Montaigne, 1580Rivalry adds so much to the charms of one’s conquests.
—Louisa May Alcott, 1866He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
—Francis Bacon, 1625I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless tourists.
—Brigitte Bardot, 1989To escape its wretched lot, the populace has three ways, two imaginary and one real. The first two are the rum shop and the church; the third is the social revolution.
—Mikhail Bakunin, 1871Divine nature gave the fields; human art built the cities.
—Marcus Terentius Varro, c. 70 BCAfter all, crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor.
—John Huston, 1950You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.
—Leon TrotskyFootball causeth fighting, brawling, contention, quarrel picking, murder, homicide and great effusion of bloode, as daily experience teacheth.
—Philip Stubbes, 1583The envious die not once, but as often as the envied win applause.
—Baltasar Gracián, 1647The law’s made to take care o’ raskills.
—George Eliot, 1860Life isn’t all beer and skittles, but beer and skittles, or something better of the same sort, must form a good part of every Englishman’s education.
—Thomas Hughes, 1857