Animals are such agreeable friends—they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
—George Eliot, 1857
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Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.
—Florence King, 1989Some memories are like lucky charms, talismans, one shouldn’t tell about them or they’ll lose their power.
—Iris Murdoch, 1985Being offended is the natural consequence of leaving one’s home.
—Fran Lebowitz, 1981Brains are the only things worth having in this world.
—L. Frank Baum, 1899The sea serves the pirate as well as the trader.
—Prudentius, c. 405To eat is to appropriate by destruction.
—Jean-Paul Sartre, 1943That obtained in youth may endure like characters engraved in stones.
—Ibn Gabirol, 1040What timid man does not avoid contact with the sick, fearing lest he contract a disease so near?
—Ovid, c. 10France has neither winter, summer, nor morals—apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.
—Mark Twain, 1879A joke is at most a temporary rebellion against virtue, and its aim is not to degrade the human being but to remind him that he is already degraded.
—George Orwell, 1945It raineth every day, and the weather represents our tearful despair on a large scale.
—Mary Boykin Chesnut, 1865If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar, and will not leave it, why keep the door so very carefully shut?
—Olive Schreiner, 1883