I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
—Gore Vidal, 1973
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Water is the first principle of everything.
—Thales of Miletus, c. 600 BCIf you read somebody’s diary, you get what you deserve.
—David Sedaris, 2004The men of today are born to criticize; of Achilles they see only the heel.
—Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, 1880I want to be the white man’s brother, not his brother-in-law.
—Martin Luther King Jr., 1962Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.
—W. Somerset Maugham, 1896I am invariably of the politics of the people at whose table I sit, or beneath whose roof I sleep.
—George Borrow, 1843Memories are hunting horns
whose noise dies away in the wind.
I think it makes small difference to the dead if they are buried in the tokens of luxury. All this is an empty glorification left for those who live.
—Euripides, 415 BCThe waters are nature’s storehouse, in which she locks up her wonders.
—Izaak Walton, 1653Information can tell us everything. It has all the answers. But they are answers to questions we have not asked, and which doubtless don’t even arise.
—Jean Baudrillard, c. 1987All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it.
—Henry David Thoreau, 1849Our allotted time is the passing of a shadow.
—Book of Wisdom, c. 100 BC