I’ve seen the future, brother; it is murder.
—Leonard Cohen, 1992
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Every ass thinks himself worthy to stand with the king’s horses.
—Gnomologia, 1732There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink.
—Booth Tarkington, 1914As he brews, so shall he drink.
—Ben Jonson, 1598There are twelve hours in the day, and above fifty in the night.
—Madame de Sévigné, 1671Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
—Anatole France, 1881Let my epitaph be, “Here lies Joseph, who failed in everything he undertook.”
—Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II, 1790The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty, and death of public opinion.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1902Someone will remember us
I say
even in another time.
My ideas are clear. My orders are precise. Within five years, Rome must appear marvelous to all the people of the world—vast, orderly, powerful, as in the time of the empire of Augustus.
—Benito Mussolini, 1929Almsgiving tends to perpetuate poverty; aid does away with it once and for all.
—Eva Perón, 1949The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of a gun.
—P.G. Wodehouse, 1929An honest man is all right even if he’s an idiot…but a crook must have brains.
—Maxim Gorky, 1902