Friendship itself will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
—Robert Wilson Lynd, 1924
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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
—Anthony Trollope, 1862For what do we live but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?
—Jane Austen, 1813Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls, and sloth, or the Gout will seize you.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1734I used to do drugs. I still do, but I used to, too.
—Mitch Hedberg, 1999The country only has charms for those not obliged to stay there.
—Édouard Manet, c. 1860All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. The violence of revolutions is the violence of men who charge into a vacuum.
—John Kenneth Galbraith, 1977A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated has not the art of getting drunk.
—Samuel Johnson, 1779The most may err as grossly as the few.
—John Dryden, 1681Do that which consists in taking no action, and order will prevail.
—Laozi, c. 500 BCSo long as one believes in God, one has the right to do the Good in order to be moral.
—Jean-Paul Sartre, c. 1950He that will cheat you at play, will cheat you any way.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732From the cradle to the coffin, underwear comes first.
—Bertolt Brecht, 1928