A woman’s greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill.
—Pericles, c. 450 BC
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For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?
—Jane Austen, 1813This is Year Zero.
—Pol Pot, 1975Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.
—Miguel de Unamuno, 1913Every man has a lurking wish to appear considerable in his native place.
—Samuel Johnson, 1771Religion! How it dominates man’s mind, how it humiliates and degrades his soul. God is everything, man is nothing, says religion. But out of that nothing God has created a kingdom so despotic, so tyrannical, so cruel, so terribly exacting that naught but gloom and tears and blood have ruled the world since gods began.
—Emma Goldman, 1910An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 1746The world is for thousands a freak show; the images flicker past and vanish.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1776The Revolution is made by man, but man must forge his revolutionary spirit from day to day.
—Che Guevara, 1968I looked and there was a pale green horse! Its rider’s name was Death, and Hades followed with him.
—Book of Revelations, c. 90Jests and scoffs do lessen majesty and greatness and should be far from great personages and men of wisdom.
—Henry Peacham, 1622No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.
—Samuel Johnson, 1776Curse on all laws but those which love has made.
—Alexander Pope, 1717