You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation.
—Billie Holiday, 1956
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There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink.
—Booth Tarkington, 1914There is no crime without precedent.
—Seneca the Younger, c. 60All our enemies are mortal.
—Paul Valéry, 1942Comedy, like sodomy, is an unnatural act.
—Marty Feldman, 1969Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
—Cormac McCarthy, 1992Are we not ourselves nature, nature without end?
—Stanisław Lem, 1961The best way to fill time is to waste it.
—Marguerite Duras, 1987Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.
—James Fenimore Cooper, 1838Friendship itself will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
—Robert Wilson Lynd, 1924Speak and speed; the close mouth catches no flies.
—Benjamin Franklin, c. 1732Under the wide and starry sky, / Dig the grave and let me lie.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1887