All of life is a foreign country.
—Jack Kerouac, 1949
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My face looks like a wedding cake left out in the rain.
—W.H. Auden, c. 1967Some to the common pulpits, and cry out / “Liberty, freedom, and enfranchisement!”
—William Shakespeare, c. 1599Nothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self; for what we wish, that we readily believe.
—Demosthenes, 349 BCWe who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.
—Barbara Ehrenreich, 1991Time is a veil interposed between God and ourselves, as our eyelid is between our eye and the light.
—François-René de Chateaubriand, c. 1820Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
—B.F. Skinner, 1964Who draws his sword against his prince must throw away the scabbard.
—James Howell, 1659Under the wide and starry sky, / Dig the grave and let me lie.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1887Do not lessen the time of following desire, for the wasting of time is an abomination to the spirit.
—Ptahhotep, c. 2350 BCNothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 63 BCOften the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them; it is destiny which makes them prudent.
—Voltaire, 1764Every man takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851