Men, my dear, are very queer animals—a mixture of horse nervousness, ass stubbornness, and camel malice.
—T. H. Huxley, 1895
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As far as I can see, the history of experimental art in the twentieth century is intimately bound up with the experience of intoxification.
—Will Self, 1994Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there.
—Susanne K. Langer, 1942The law looks at no one’s face.
—Gabriel Okara, 1964The brain is an unreliable organ, it is monstrously great, monstrously developed. Swollen, like a goiter.
—Aleksandr Blok, c. 1920He that raises a large family, does indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand…a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1786A monument is money wasted. My memory will live on if my life has deserved it.
—Pliny the Younger, c. 109There is no happiness like that of a young couple in a little house they have built themselves in a place of beauty and solitude.
—Annie Proulx, 2008Drinking with women is as unnatural as scolding with ’em.
—William Wycherley, 1675In the past, men created witches; now they create mental patients.
—Thomas Szasz, 1970The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
—Aristotle, c. 350 BCTo cast aside obedience, and by popular violence to incite revolt, is treason, not against man only, but against God.
—Pope Leo XIII, 1885Governments are not overthrown by the poor, who have no power, but by the rich—when they are insulted by their inferiors and cannot obtain justice.
—Dionysius of Halicarnassus, c. 20 BC