The greatest veneration one can show the law is to keep a watch on it.
—Nadine Gordimer, 1971
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Love is giving something you haven’t got to someone who doesn’t exist.
—Jacques LacanEpitaph, n. An inscription on a tomb, showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.
—Erasmus, 1515The boy is, of all wild beasts, the most difficult to manage.
—Plato, c. 348 BCChildren and fools cannot lie.
—John Heywood, 1546The best quarantine is hygiene.
—Richard D. Arnold, 1871As far as I can see, the history of experimental art in the twentieth century is intimately bound up with the experience of intoxification.
—Will Self, 1994Life is the art of being well deceived.
—William Hazlitt, c. 1817If I lose at play, I blaspheme, and if my fellow loses, he blasphemes. So that God is always sure to be the loser.
—John Donne, 1623Good men must not obey the laws too well.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844Resorting to the law to resolve a dispute is a declaration of spiritual bankruptcy.
—Quentin Crisp, 1984The future, like everything else, is no longer quite what it used to be.
—Paul Valéry, 1931