Friendship is not possible between two women, one of whom is very well dressed.
—Laurie Colwin, 1978
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Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.
—Rosa Luxemburg, 1918Our crime against criminals is that we treat them as villains.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1898I work for a government I despise for ends I think criminal.
—John Maynard Keynes, 1917The most fitting occupation for a civilized man is to do nothing.
—Théophile Gautier, c. 1835I have learned much from disease which life could never have taught me anywhere else.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1830It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.
—Friedrich Schiller, 1781Never greet a stranger in the night, for he may be a demon.
—Babylonian Talmud, c. 600We should not say that one man’s hour is worth another man’s hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing; he is, at most, time’s carcass.
—Karl Marx, 1847Some nights are like honey—and some like wine—and some like wormwood.
—L.M. Montgomery, 1927No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation.
—Woodrow Wilson, 1915It is permitted to learn even from an enemy.
—Ovid, c. 8Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea? How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.
—Sydney Smith, 1855