The one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.
—Salvador Dalí, 1953
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Man is the one name belonging to every nation upon earth: there is one soul and many tongues, one spirit and various sounds; every country has its own speech, but the subjects of speech are common to all.
—Tertullian, c. 217Understanding is a very dull occupation.
—Gertrude Stein, 1937An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 1746When we see a natural style we are quite amazed and delighted, because we expected to see an author and find a man.
—Blaise Pascal, c. 1657God never sent a messenger save with the language of his folk, that he might make the message clear for them.
—The Qur’an, c. 620Some nights are like honey—and some like wine—and some like wormwood.
—L.M. Montgomery, 1927What a glut of books! Who can read them? As already, we shall have a vast chaos and confusion of books; we are oppressed with them, our eyes ache with reading, our fingers with turning.
—Robert Burton, 1621I quit life as from an inn, not as from a home.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 44 BCComedy, like sodomy, is an unnatural act.
—Marty Feldman, 1969Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe—though we didn’t know it at the time.
—Susan Sontag, 1973We wish away whole years, and travel through time as through a country filled with many wild and empty wastes, which we would fain hurry over, that we may arrive at those several little settlements or imaginary points of rest which are dispersed up and down in it.
—Joseph Addison, 1711There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
—Michel de Montaigne, 1580