Carnal embrace is the practice of throwing one’s arms around a side of beef.
—Tom Stoppard, 1993
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A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 350 BCWhen law can do no right,
Let it be lawful that law bar no wrong.
The king times are fast finishing. There will be blood shed like water, and tears like mist; but the peoples will conquer in the end.
—Lord Byron, 1821No human life, not even the life of a hermit, is possible without a world which directly or indirectly testifies to the presence of other human beings.
—Hannah Arendt, 1958When night in her rusty dungeon has imprisoned our eyesight, and that we are shut separately in our chambers from resort, the devil keeps his audit in our sin-guilty consciences.
—Thomas Nashe, 1594Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, c. 1940To safeguard one’s health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness indeed.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1678The home is a human institution. All human institutions are open to improvement.
—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1903The body says what words cannot.
—Martha Graham, 1985The most may err as grossly as the few.
—John Dryden, 1681I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool than I am.
—Alice James, 1889It costs a lot of money to be rich.
—Peter Boyle, 2002