Death from the bubonic plague is rated, with crucifixion, among the nastiest human experiences of all.
—Guy R. Williams, 1975
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All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it.
—Henry David Thoreau, 1849The future, like everything else, is no longer quite what it used to be.
—Paul Valéry, 1931I wants to make your flesh creep.
—Charles Dickens, 1837Vox populi, vox humbug.
—William Tecumseh Sherman, 1863Knowledge itself is power.
—Francis Bacon, 1597To call a fashion wearable is the kiss of death. No new fashion worth its salt is ever wearable.
—Eugenia Sheppard, 1960Good men must not obey the laws too well.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one’s own Trojan horse.
—Rebecca West, 1959Memory is more indelible than ink.
—Anita Loos, 1974Fortune resists half-hearted prayers.
—Ovid, 8Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations—wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.
—Edmund Burke, 1795One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.
—Oscar Wilde, 1894