Nothing puzzles me more than time and space, and yet nothing puzzles me less, for I never think about them.
—Charles Lamb, 1810
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You have all the characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
—Aristophanes, c. 424 BCNo free man shall be taken or imprisoned or dispossessed or outlawed or exiled, or in any way destroyed, nor will we go upon him, nor will we send against him except by the lawful judgment of his peers or by the law of the land.
—Magna Carta, 1215I’ve been bathing in the poem / Of star-infused and milky sea / Devouring the azure greens.
—Arthur Rimbaud, 1871The best way to fill time is to waste it.
—Marguerite Duras, 1987The ability to store our data externally helps us imagine that our time is limitless, our space infinite.
—Carina Chocano, 2012To ensure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough; a police force is needed as well.
—Albert Camus, 1951Does anybody really want to attend to cities other than to flee, fleece, privatize, butcher, or decimate them?
—Jane Holtz Kay, 1992I have often been convinced that a democracy is incapable of empire.
—Thucydides, c. 404 BCWe want a lot of engineers in the modern world, but we do not want a world of engineers.
—Winston Churchill, 1948Rewards and punishment are the lowest form of education.
—Zhuangzi, c. 286 BCA broken friendship may be soldered but will never be sound.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732There’s folks ’ud hold a sieve under the pump and expect to carry away the water.
—George Eliot, 1859