A dead enemy always smells good.
—Aulus Vitellius, 69
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An honest man is all right even if he’s an idiot…but a crook must have brains.
—Maxim Gorky, 1902If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.
—Henry Clay, 1812Whoever gulps down wine as a horse gulps down water is called a Scythian.
—Athenaeus, c. 230There is nothing worse for mortals than a wandering life.
—Homer, c. 750 BCFor most of us, nighttime dreaming brings us closer to our identities and our power than any activity in the waking world.
—Walter Mosley, 2000I’d like to be a machine, wouldn’t you?
—Andy Warhol, 1963Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable desire to seek the truth.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 45 BCSoldiers in peace are like chimneys in summer.
—William Cecil, Lord Burghley, c. 1555Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament and embrace it with passion if we want to be happy.
—Cyril Connolly, 1944The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
—John Berger, 1984An American will build a house in which to pass his old age and sell it before the roof is on.
—Alexis de Tocqueville, 1840