Sic semper tyrannis! The South is avenged.
—John Wilkes Booth, 1865
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Youth, youth, springtime of beauty.
—Anthem of the National Fascist Party, c. 1924Imagination continually outruns the creature it inhabits.
—Katherine Anne Porter, 1949Ours is an age which consciously pursues health, and yet only believes in the reality of sickness.
—Susan Sontag, 1963Punishment is a sort of medicine.
—Aristotle, c. 340 BCSome people make stuff; other people have to buy it. And when we gave up making stuff, starting in the 1980s, we were left with the unique role of buying.
—Barbara Ehrenreich, 2008Oh, democracy! Whither are you leading us?
—Aristophanes, 414 BCWhat touches all shall be approved by all.
—Edward I, 1295For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?
—Jane Austen, 1813I work for a government I despise for ends I think criminal.
—John Maynard Keynes, 1917Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.
—Socrates, c. 430 BCI hate the sight of monkeys; they remind me so of poor relations.
—Henry Luttrell, 1820Death keeps no calendar.
—George Herbert, 1640