I was born at a very early age. Before I had time to regret it, I was four and a half years old.
—Groucho Marx, 1959
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Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
—Cormac McCarthy, 1992The future, like everything else, is no longer quite what it used to be.
—Paul Valéry, 1931Being offended is the natural consequence of leaving one’s home.
—Fran Lebowitz, 1981A functioning police state needs no police.
—William S. Burroughs, 1959There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1790Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it.
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, 1821I quit life as from an inn, not as from a home.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 44 BCO flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified!
—William Shakespeare, c. 1596The merchant always has fresh losses to expect, and the dread of base poverty forbids his rest.
—Decimus Magnus Ausonius, c. 390How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.
—Søren Kierkegaard, 1843The happiness of society is the end of government.
—John Adams, 1776