Can you take your country with you on the soles of your shoes?
—Georg Büchner, 1835
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Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco pipes of those who diffuse it; it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.
—George Eliot, 1876The law looks at no one’s face.
—Gabriel Okara, 1964An ugly sight, a man who’s afraid.
—Jean Anouilh, 1944I never yet could make out why men are so fond of hunting; they often hurt themselves, often spoil good horses, and tear up the fields—and all for a hare or a fox or a stag that they could get more easily some other way.
—Anna Sewell, 1877Time will reveal everything. It is a babbler and speaks even when not asked.
—Euripides, c. 425 BCNo woman needs intercourse; few women escape it.
—Andrea Dworkin, 1978The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
—B.F. Skinner, 1969Hoping for new friendship from old enemies is / Like expecting to find a rose in a furnace.
—Muhammad Baqir Najm-i Sani, 1612Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1610Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.
—Samuel Johnson, 1780I was born without knowing why, I have lived without knowing why, and I am dying without either knowing why or how.
—Pierre Gassendi, 1655The first requisite to happiness is that a man be born in a famous city.
—Euripides, c. 415 BC