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Happiness is no laughing matter.
—Richard Whately, 1843I am sure of this: that if everybody was to drink their bottle a day, there would not be half the disorders in the world there are now.
—Jane Austen, c. 1798He who laugheth too much, hath the nature of a fool; he that laugheth not at all, hath the nature of an old cat.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732Some of us would be greatly astonished to learn the reasons why others respect us.
—Marquis de Vauvenargues, 1746Information can tell us everything. It has all the answers. But they are answers to questions we have not asked, and which doubtless don’t even arise.
—Jean Baudrillard, c. 1987The king times are fast finishing. There will be blood shed like water, and tears like mist; but the peoples will conquer in the end.
—Lord Byron, 1821One race there is of men, one of gods, but from one mother we both draw our breath.
—Pindar, c. 450 BCAnimals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.
—Voltaire, 1769All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.
—Havelock Ellis, 1921Being offended is the natural consequence of leaving one’s home.
—Fran Lebowitz, 1981Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1871No one wins a quarrel by quarreling.
—German proverb