I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
—Thomas Hobbes, 1679
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In a true democracy, everyone can be upper-class and live in Connecticut.
—Lisa Birnbach, 1980Understanding is a very dull occupation.
—Gertrude Stein, 1937Why is not a rat as good as a rabbit? Why should men eat shrimps and neglect cockroaches?
—Henry Ward Beecher, 1862Without music life would be a mistake.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1889We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament and embrace it with passion if we want to be happy.
—Cyril Connolly, 1944Hygienic law, like martial law, supersedes rights in crises.
—Samuel Hopkins Adams, 1913In every man is a wild beast; most of them don’t know how to hold it back, and the majority give it full rein when they are not restrained by terror of law.
—Frederick the Great, 1759Punishment is a sort of medicine.
—Aristotle, c. 340 BCNo 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, 1851Avoid the law—the first loss is generally the least.
—Hannah Farnham Sawyer Lee, 1844Each night’s new terror drives away the terror of the night before.
—Sophocles, c. 450 BCA monument is money wasted. My memory will live on if my life has deserved it.
—Pliny the Younger, c. 109