There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891
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The fear of war is worse than war itself.
—Seneca, c. 50Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers.
—Voltaire, 1770The sick man is the parasite of society.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1889Is all our fire of shipwreck wood?
—Robert Browning, 1862Gossip isn’t scandal and it’s not merely malicious. It’s chatter about the human race by lovers of the same.
—Phyllis McGinley, 1957Had Cleopatra’s nose been shorter, the whole face of the world would have changed.
—Blaise Pascal, 1658Laughter always arises from a gaiety of disposition, absolutely incompatible with contempt and indignation.
—Voltaire, 1736No one makes a revolution by himself, and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand.
—George Sand, 1851The righteous know the needs of their animals, but the mercy of the wicked is cruel.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 500 BCThe planet keeps to the astronomer’s timetable, but the wind still bloweth almost where it listeth.
—John Henry Poynting, 1899There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.
—Francis Bacon, 1625Life’s no resting, but a moving.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, c. 1795