I prefer liberty with unquiet to slavery with quiet.
—Sallust, c. 35 BC
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One of the important requirements for learning how to cook is that you also learn how to eat.
—Julia Child, 2001If fame is only to come after death, I am in no hurry for it.
—Martial, c. 86Dance tunes are always right.
—Dylan Thomas, 1936There is no happiness like that of a young couple in a little house they have built themselves in a place of beauty and solitude.
—Annie Proulx, 2008The Mediterranean has the colors of a mackerel, changeable I mean. You don’t always know if it is green or violet—you can’t even say it’s blue, because the next moment the changing light has taken on a tinge of pink or gray.
—Vincent van Gogh, 1888Alcohol is the monarch of liquids.
—Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, 1825An oppressed people are authorized, whenever they can, to rise and break their fetters.
—Henry Clay, 1842Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there.
—Susanne K. Langer, 1942The only function of a school is to make self-education easier.
—Isaac Asimov, 1974There is a sickness among tyrants: they cannot trust their friends.
—Aeschylus, c. 458 BCA tree’s a tree. How many more do you need to look at?
—Ronald Reagan, 1965Sex and drugs and rock and roll.
—Ian Dury, 1977