Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.
—Plautus, c. 200 BC
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What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains and studying night and day how to fly?
—William Law, 1728The seeds of civilization are in every culture, but it is city life that brings them to fruition.
—Susanne K. Langer, 1962Spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings are strangely silent where once they were filled with the beauty of birdsong.
—Rachel Carson, 1962He who commands the sea has command of everything.
—Francis Bacon, c. 1600The right to the pursuit of happiness is nothing else than the right to disillusionment phrased in another way.
—Aldous Huxley, 1956When I do a show, the whole show revolves around me, and if I don’t show up, they can just forget it.
—Ethel Merman, c. 1955Attacks on me will do no harm, and silent contempt is the best answer to them.
—James Monroe, 1808To hide and feel guilty would be the beginning of defeat.
—Milan Kundera, 1978Iron may break gold, but water remains whole.
—Ge Hong, c. 300A whale-ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
—Herman Melville, 1851Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.
—Aphra Behn, 1677I proclaim night more truthful than the day.
—Léopold Sédar Senghor, 1956