There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891
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Are we not ourselves nature, nature without end?
—Stanisław Lem, 1961We need strength, we need energy, we need quickness, and we need brain in this country to turn it around.
—Donald Trump, 2015If I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend my life in driving briskly in a post-chaise with a pretty woman.
—Samuel Johnson, 1777Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903So many men, so many opinions.
—Terence, 161 BCIn its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.
—Michel Foucault, 1975As the saying goes, an old woman is always uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb.
—Chinua Achebe, 1958Being thus arrived in good harbor, and brought safe to land, they fell upon their knees and blessed the God of heaven who had brought them over the vast and furious ocean and delivered them from all the perils and miseries thereof, again to set their feet on the firm and stale earth, their proper element.
—William Bradford, 1630You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.
—Leon TrotskyI looked and there was a pale green horse! Its rider’s name was Death, and Hades followed with him.
—Book of Revelations, c. 90There will always be a lost dog somewhere that will prevent me from being happy.
—Jean Anouilh, 1934The dead are often just as living to us as the living are, only we cannot get them to believe it. They can come to us, but till we die we cannot go to them. To be dead is to be unable to understand that one is alive.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1888