The more corrupt the republic, the more numerous the laws.
—Tacitus, c. 117
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No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it.
—Andrea Dworkin, 1978Good fortune is light as a feather, but nobody knows how to hold it up. Misfortune is heavy as the earth, but nobody knows how to stay out of its way.
—Zhuangzi, c. 300 BCBy night an atheist half believes a God.
—Edward Young, c. 1745Comedy, like sodomy, is an unnatural act.
—Marty Feldman, 1969Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and in this hasn’t changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
—John Berger, 1987Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
—Sammy Davis Jr., 1965The life of the dead consists in the recollection cherished of them by the living.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 43 BCKings and fools know no law.
—German proverbHave you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a centaur, a leopard, a wolf, or a bull?
—Aristophanes, 423 BCExtraordinary how potent cheap music is.
—Noël Coward, 1930A win always seems shallow: it is the loss that is so profound and suggests nasty infinities.
—E.M. Forster, 1919God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees and flowers and clouds and stars.
—Martin Luther