Whoever has died is freed from sin.
—St. Paul, c. 50
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Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1938These 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. 95If you find excrement somewhere in the village, the chief was the one who put it there.
—Congolese proverbI always think of nature as a great spectacle, somewhat resembling the opera.
—Bernard de Fontenelle, 1686Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever lays one down without a feeling of disappointment.
—Charles Lamb, 1833Divine nature gave the fields; human art built the cities.
—Marcus Terentius Varro, c. 70 BCLet me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.
—James Madison, 1794Drunkenness is the very sepulcher / Of man’s wit and his discretion.
—Geoffrey Chaucer, c. 1390The unknown is the largest need of the intellect.
—Emily Dickinson, 1876A friend who is very near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.
—George Ade, 1902The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family.
—Paul Johnson, 1989The enlightened man says: I am body entirely and nothing beside.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1883