When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.
—Ursula K. Le Guin, 1969
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War is fear cloaked in courage.
—William Westmoreland, 1966Jests and scoffs do lessen majesty and greatness and should be far from great personages and men of wisdom.
—Henry Peacham, 1622The snotgreen sea. The scrotumtightening sea.
—James Joyce, 1922As he brews, so shall he drink.
—Ben Jonson, 1598Drunkenness is the very sepulcher / Of man’s wit and his discretion.
—Geoffrey Chaucer, c. 1390You furnish the pictures, and I’ll furnish the war.
—William Randolph Hearst, 1898Enemies to me are the sauce piquant to my dish of life.
—Elsa Maxwell, 1955I tell you, there is such a thing as creative hate!
—Willa Cather, 1915Time’s violence rends the soul; by the rent eternity enters.
—Simone Weil, 1947It is not a case we are treating; it is a living, palpitating, alas, too often suffering fellow creature.
—John Brown, 1904Many are the wonders of the world, and none so wonderful as man.
—Sophocles, c. 441 BCIt is hell to belong to a suppressed minority.
—Claude McKay, 1937