One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
—Virginia Woolf, 1929
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A change in the weather is sufficient to create the world and oneself anew.
—Marcel Proust, c. 1920The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education. School is where you go between when your parents can’t take you and industry can’t take you.
—John Updike, 1963Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules, and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence; in other words it is war minus the shooting.
—George Orwell, 1945Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve and from which he cannot escape.
—Erich Fromm, 1947One of the animals which a generous and sociable man would soonest become is a dog. A dog can have a friend; he has affections and character; he can enjoy equally the field and the fireside; he dreams, he caresses, he propitiates; he offends and is pardoned; he stands by you in adversity; he is a good fellow.
—Leigh Hunt, 1834It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
—Thomas Hardy, 1874Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls, and sloth, or the Gout will seize you.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1734A functioning police state needs no police.
—William S. Burroughs, 1959Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1776A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
—Ouida, 1880Death renders all equal.
—Claudian, c. 395A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
—Jane Austen, 1814