Some nights are like honey—and some like wine—and some like wormwood.
—L.M. Montgomery, 1927
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Children and fools cannot lie.
—John Heywood, 1546The sick man is the parasite of society.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1889Do we want laurels for ourselves most, / Or most that no one else shall have any?
—Amy Lowell, 1922Cows are among the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them—and, in short, I am not ashamed to profess a deep love for these quiet creatures.
—Thomas De Quincey, 1821It is delightful to read on the spot the impressions and opinions of tourists who visited a hundred years ago, in the vehicles and with the aesthetic prejudices of the period, the places which you are visiting now. The voyage ceases to be a mere tour through space; you travel through time and thought as well.
—Aldous Huxley, 1925My ideas are clear. My orders are precise. Within five years, Rome must appear marvelous to all the people of the world—vast, orderly, powerful, as in the time of the empire of Augustus.
—Benito Mussolini, 1929One race there is of men, one of gods, but from one mother we both draw our breath.
—Pindar, c. 450 BCIndustrialism is the religion with “the machine” as the god going to answer all the prayers. Communism and capitalism were just competing sects.
—Dora Russell, 1983No one’s serious at seventeen.
—Arthur Rimbaud, 1870Whoever expects to walk peacefully in the world must be money’s guest.
—Norman O. Brown, 1959And then, sir, there is this consideration: that if the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up and, claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system.
—Samuel Johnson, 1791History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.
—Theodor Adorno, c. 1946