When one has a famishing thirst for happiness, one is apt to gulp down diversions wherever they are offered.
—Alice Hegan Rice, 1917
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Is this dying? Is this all? Is this all that I feared when I prayed against a hard death? Oh, I can bear this! I can bear it!
—Cotton Mather, 1728Do we want laurels for ourselves most, / Or most that no one else shall have any?
—Amy Lowell, 1922You can put wings on a pig, but you don’t make it an eagle.
—Bill Clinton, 1996Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.
—George Eliot, 1857I’d like to be a machine, wouldn’t you?
—Andy Warhol, 1963A regime which combines perpetual surveillance with total indulgence is hardly conducive to healthy development.
—P.D. James, 1992I’ve seen the future, brother; it is murder.
—Leonard Cohen, 1992There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
—Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, 1989Wit enables us to act rudely with impunity.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1678The best quarantine is hygiene.
—Richard D. Arnold, 1871The dead are often just as living to us as the living are, only we cannot get them to believe it. They can come to us, but till we die we cannot go to them. To be dead is to be unable to understand that one is alive.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1888We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.
—Aesop, c. 600 BC