To live outside the law, you must be honest.
—Bob Dylan, 1966
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When I do a show, the whole show revolves around me, and if I don’t show up, they can just forget it.
—Ethel Merman, c. 1955War is the child of pride, and pride the daughter of riches.
—Jonathan Swift, 1697One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
—E.B. White, 1977Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.
—Wendell Phillips, 1859I’ve got some shit I’m conservative about and some shit I’m liberal about. Crime—I’m conservative. Prostitution—I’m liberal.
—Chris Rock, 2008Whatever the apparent cause of any riots may be, the real one is always want of happiness.
—Thomas Paine, 1792Though the boys throw stones at frogs in sport, yet the frogs do not die in sport but in earnest.
—Bion of Smyrna, c. 100 BCGod is a complex of ideas formed by the tribe, the nation, and humanity, which awake and organize social feelings and aim to link the individual to society and to bridle the zoological individualism.
—Maxim Gorky, 1913The future comes like an unwelcome guest.
—Edmund Gosse, 1873Home is wherever I go.
—Indira Gandhi, 1955Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need—a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing.
—Jerome K. Jerome, 1889There are times when reality becomes too complex for oral communication. But legend gives it a form by which it pervades the whole world.
—Jean-Luc Godard, 1965