To call a fashion wearable is the kiss of death. No new fashion worth its salt is ever wearable.
—Eugenia Sheppard, 1960
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Corporations have neither bodies to be punished nor souls to be damned.
—Chinese proverbThe only function of a school is to make self-education easier.
—Isaac Asimov, 1974Music is our myth of the inner life.
—Susanne K. Langer, 1942Fashion, n. A despot whom the wise ridicule and obey.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1911A fair complexion is unbecoming to a sailor: he ought to be swarthy from the waters of the sea and the rays of the sun.
—Ovid, c. 1 BCYou may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she’ll be constantly running back.
—Horace, 20 BCThe most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them.
—Denis Diderot, 1777Law makes long spokes of the short stakes of men.
—William Empson, 1928People who’ve drunk neat wine don’t care a damn.
—Hipponax, c. 550 BCThere is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.
—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1898Plagues are as certain as death and taxes.
—Richard Krause, 1982The march of the human mind is slow.
—Edmund Burke, 1775