Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1735
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The law’s made to take care o’ raskills.
—George Eliot, 1860Labor is no disgrace.
—Hesiod, c. 700 BCBy the blessing of the upright the city is exalted, but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 350 BCCharity is murder and you know it.
—Dorothy Parker, 1956Death keeps no calendar.
—George Herbert, 1640I quit life as from an inn, not as from a home.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 44 BCFire is a natural symbol of life and passion, though it is the one element in which nothing can actually live.
—Susanne K. Langer, 1942Oil dependency is not just an economic attachment but appears as a kind of cognitive compulsion.
—Peter Hitchcock, 2010While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact.
—Andrea Dworkin, 1983Intolerance is evidence of impotence.
—Aleister Crowley, c. 1925Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco pipes of those who diffuse it; it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.
—George Eliot, 1876Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968