All men naturally hate each other. We have used concupiscence as best we can to make it serve the common good, but this is mere sham and a false image of charity, for essentially it is just hate.
—Blaise Pascal, c. 1655
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And your very flesh shall be a great poem.
—Walt Whitman, 1855Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.
—Kate Moss, 2009The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other.
—Mario Puzo, 2001Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men, but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
—Joseph Addison, 1711Making a film means, first of all, to tell a story. That story can be an improbable one, but it should never be banal. It must be dramatic and human. What is drama, after all, but life with the dull bits cut out?
—Alfred Hitchcock, 1962Television has made dictatorship impossible, but democracy unbearable.
—Shimon Peres, 1995A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 350 BCThe waters are nature’s storehouse, in which she locks up her wonders.
—Izaak Walton, 1653The human working stock is of interest only insofar as it is profitable.
—Simone de Beauvoir, 1970Attacks on me will do no harm, and silent contempt is the best answer to them.
—James Monroe, 1808The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891Anyone who has passed through the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.
—William Hazlitt, 1821