There must be quite a few things a hot bath won’t cure, but I don’t know many of them.
—Sylvia Plath, 1963
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The more corrupt the republic, the more numerous the laws.
—Tacitus, c. 117God sells us all things at the price of labor.
—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1500The Revolution is made by man, but man must forge his revolutionary spirit from day to day.
—Che Guevara, 1968The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.
—Anna Jameson, 1846I used to do drugs. I still do, but I used to, too.
—Mitch Hedberg, 1999Two things only the people anxiously desire, bread and the circus games.
—Juvenal, c. 121The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.
—André Gide, 1927To call a fashion wearable is the kiss of death. No new fashion worth its salt is ever wearable.
—Eugenia Sheppard, 1960All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it.
—Henry David Thoreau, 1849All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
—Plotinus, c. 255What 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, 1728If both what is before and what is after are in this same “now,” things which happened ten thousand years ago would be simultaneous with what has happened today, and nothing would be before or after anything else.
—Aristotle, c. 330 BC