O flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified!
—William Shakespeare, c. 1596
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There 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, 2008Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made—through disobedience and through rebellion.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.
—André Gide, 1897The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do.
—B.F. Skinner, 1969He who laugheth too much, hath the nature of a fool; he that laugheth not at all, hath the nature of an old cat.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.
—Albert Einstein, 1929Comedy, like sodomy, is an unnatural act.
—Marty Feldman, 1969The art of invention grows young with the things invented.
—Francis Bacon, 1605Dreams have always been my friend, full of information, full of warnings.
—Doris Lessing, 1994I had rather be in a state of misery and envied for my supposed happiness than in a state of happiness and pitied for my supposed misery.
—Elizabeth Inchbald, 1793The best moment of love is when the lover leaves in the taxi.
—Michel Foucault, c. 1982If people think Nature is their friend, then they sure don’t need an enemy.
—Kurt Vonnegut, 1988