Nothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self; for what we wish, that we readily believe.
—Demosthenes, 349 BC
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Your mind’s got to eat, too.
—Dambudzo Marechera, 1978Being 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., 1965Even a paranoid can have enemies.
—Henry Kissinger, 1977Football causeth fighting, brawling, contention, quarrel picking, murder, homicide and great effusion of bloode, as daily experience teacheth.
—Philip Stubbes, 1583Do you suppose that will change the sense of the morals, the fact that we can’t use morals as a means of judging the city because we couldn’t stand it? And that we’re changing our whole moral system to suit the fact that we’re living in a ridiculous way?
—Philip Johnson, 1965I used to think that everyone was just being funny. But now I don’t know. I mean, how can you tell?
—Andy Warhol, 1970There is no small pleasure in sweet water.
—Ovid, c. 10Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.
—Gertrude Stein, 1940Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
—Theodore Roosevelt, 1903Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it, and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, c. 1790The root of the kingdom is in the State. The root of the State is in the family. The root of the family is in the person of its Head.
—Mencius, c. 270 BCIf we wait for a pandemic to appear, it will be too late to prepare.
—George W. Bush, 2005