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—Jean Paul, 1807
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Men, my dear, are very queer animals—a mixture of horse nervousness, ass stubbornness, and camel malice.
—T. H. Huxley, 1895There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1790The elephant, although a gross beast, is yet the most decent and most sensible of any other upon earth. Although he never changes his female, and hath so tender a love for her whom he hath chosen, yet he never couples with her but at the end of every three years, and then only for the space of five days.
—St. Francis de Sales, 1609Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one’s own Trojan horse.
—Rebecca West, 1959No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called games.
—W.H. Auden, 1962There are times when reality becomes too complex for oral communication. But legend gives it a form by which it pervades the whole world.
—Jean-Luc Godard, 1965Abstainer, n. A weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.
—Edward VIII, 1957’Tis a portentous sign / When a man sweats and at the same time shivers.
—Plautus, c. 180 BCWhen you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.
—Chinese proverbShame on the soul, to falter on the road of life while the body still perseveres.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with the necessities.
—John Lothrop Motley, 1858