These useless men ought to be cut up and served at a banquet. I really believe that athletes have less intelligence than swine.
—Dio Chrysostom, c. 95
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Money is mourned with deeper sorrow than friends or kindred.
—Juvenal, 128I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless tourists.
—Brigitte Bardot, 1989Water is the first principle of everything.
—Thales of Miletus, c. 600 BCThe earth is our existence, and our body is attached to the earth.
—Daulat Qazi, c. 1650Oil dependency is not just an economic attachment but appears as a kind of cognitive compulsion.
—Peter Hitchcock, 2010Men, my dear, are very queer animals—a mixture of horse nervousness, ass stubbornness, and camel malice.
—T. H. Huxley, 1895The friend of all humanity is no friend to me.
—Molière, 1666It belongs to a nobleman to weep in an hour of disaster.
—Euripides, 412 BCOpposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.
—Sigmund Freud, 1930In my dreams I sleep with everybody.
—Anaïs Nin, 1933The sea yields action to the body, meditation to the mind, the world to the world, all parts thereof to each part, by this art of arts—navigation.
—Samuel Purchas, 1613There are times when reality becomes too complex for oral communication. But legend gives it a form by which it pervades the whole world.
—Jean-Luc Godard, 1965