God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees and flowers and clouds and stars.
—Martin Luther
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Spies are of no use nowadays. Their profession is over. The newspapers do their work instead.
—Oscar Wilde, 1895The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative on the day after the revolution.
—Hannah Arendt, 1970At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
—W. Somerset Maugham, 1896What delight can there be, and not rather displeasure, in hearing the barking and howling of dogs? Or what greater pleasure is there to be felt when a dog followeth a hare than when a dog followeth a dog?
—Thomas More, 1516Alcohol is the monarch of liquids.
—Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, 1825As he brews, so shall he drink.
—Ben Jonson, 1598Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
—Frank Zappa, 1989Most men employ the first years of their life in making the last miserable.
—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688There must be quite a few things a hot bath won’t cure, but I don’t know many of them.
—Sylvia Plath, 1963A functioning police state needs no police.
—William S. Burroughs, 1959Man and animals are really the conduit of food, the sepulcher of animals, and resting place of the dead, one causing the death of the other, making themselves the covering for the corruption of other dead bodies.
—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1500True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.
—Edith Wharton, 1924