Everyone knows about everybody in Hollywood—who sleeps with whom, who doesn’t sleep, who does it standing on his head or in the dentist’s chair.
—Rock Hudson, 1982
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If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.
—Francis Bacon, 1615What is the city but the people?
—William Shakespeare, 1608A miracle entails a degree of irrationality—not because it shocks reason, but because it makes no appeal to it.
—Emmanuel Lévinas, 1952Moderation in all things.
—Terence, 166 BCHe who has nothing has no friends.
—Greek proverbThese useless men ought to be cut up and served at a banquet. I really believe that athletes have less intelligence than swine.
—Dio Chrysostom, c. 95A crowded police court docket is the surest sign that trade is brisk and money plenty.
—Mark Twain, 1872If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater, suggest that he wear a tail.
—Fran Lebowitz, 1981Like a broken gong be still, be silent. Know the stillness of freedom where there is no more striving.
—Siddhartha Gautama, c. 500 BCKnowledge itself is power.
—Francis Bacon, 1597Drinking with women is as unnatural as scolding with ’em.
—William Wycherley, 1675But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.
—Genesis, c. 900 BC