I hate the sight of monkeys; they remind me so of poor relations.
—Henry Luttrell, 1820
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The world is wearied of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1870Drugs, cataplasms, and whiskey are stupid substitutes for the dignity and potency of divine mind and its efficacy to heal.
—Mary Baker Eddy, 1908There is a kind of revolution of so general a character that it changes the mental tastes as well as the fortunes of the world.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1665Sex and drugs and rock and roll.
—Ian Dury, 1977All traveling becomes dull in exact proportion to its rapidity.
—John Ruskin, 1856Fashion, n. A despot whom the wise ridicule and obey.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1911Luck is believing you’re lucky.
—William Carlos Williams, 1947Nature is the art of God.
—Thomas Browne, 1635The sadness of the end of a career of an older athlete, with the betrayal of his body, is mirrored in the rest of us. Consciously or not, we know: there, soon, go I.
—Ira Berkow, 1987Democracy, like the human organism, carries within it the seed of its own destruction.
—Veronica Wedgwood, 1946Let us make our own mistakes, but let us take comfort in the knowledge that they are our own mistakes.
—Tom Mboya, 1958My people and I have come to an agreement that satisfies us both. They are to say what they please, and I am to do what I please.
—Frederick the Great, c. 1770