Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1886
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It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
—Thomas Hardy, 1874If you were to ask me if I’d ever had the bad luck to miss my daily cocktail, I’d have to say that I doubt it; where certain things are concerned, I plan ahead.
—Luis Buñuel, 1983Anyone who has passed through the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.
—William Hazlitt, 1821Man and animals are really the conduit of food, the sepulcher of animals, and resting place of the dead, one causing the death of the other, making themselves the covering for the corruption of other dead bodies.
—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1500Why has the government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.
—Alexander Hamilton, 1787Your body is the church where nature asks to be reverenced.
—Marquis de Sade, 1797Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903France has neither winter, summer, nor morals—apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.
—Mark Twain, 1879Without doubt God is the universal moving force, but each being is moved according to the nature that God has given it. He directs angels, man, animals, brute matter, in sum all created things—but each according to its nature—and man having been created free, he is freely led. This rule is truly the eternal law and in it we must believe.
—Joseph de Maistre, 1821You furnish the pictures, and I’ll furnish the war.
—William Randolph Hearst, 1898All people have the common desire to be elevated in honor, but all people have something still more elevated in themselves without knowing it.
—Mencius, c. 330 BCOne doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
—André Gide, 1926