Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
—Mark Twain, 1893
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Ours is an age which consciously pursues health, and yet only believes in the reality of sickness.
—Susan Sontag, 1963I prefer liberty with unquiet to slavery with quiet.
—Sallust, c. 35 BCDemocracy is the fig leaf of elitism.
—Florence King, 1989There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891A school without grades must have been concocted by someone who was drunk on nonalcoholic wine.
—Karl Kraus, 1909There is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship.
—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 1943I shall embrace my rival—until I suffocate him.
—Jean Racine, 1669A sick child is always the mother’s property; her own feelings generally make it so.
—Jane Austen, 1816The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
—Horace, c. 25 BCCharity begins at home, and justice begins next door.
—Charles Dickens, 1843Secrecy lies at the very core of power.
—Elias Canetti, 1960I am sick and tired of publicity. I want no more of it. It puts me in a bad light. I just want to be forgotten.
—Al Capone, 1929