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Quotes

O flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified!

—William Shakespeare, c. 1596

There is no happiness like that of a young couple in a little house they have built themselves in a place of beauty and solitude.

—Annie Proulx, 2008

Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made—through disobedience and through rebellion.

—Oscar Wilde, 1891

Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.

—André Gide, 1897

The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do.

—B.F. Skinner, 1969

He who laugheth too much, hath the nature of a fool; he that laugheth not at all, hath the nature of an old cat.

—Thomas Fuller, 1732

Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.

—Albert Einstein, 1929

Comedy, like sodomy, is an unnatural act.

—Marty Feldman, 1969

The art of invention grows young with the things invented.

—Francis Bacon, 1605

Dreams have always been my friend, full of information, full of warnings.

—Doris Lessing, 1994

I had rather be in a state of misery and envied for my supposed happiness than in a state of happiness and pitied for my supposed misery.

—Elizabeth Inchbald, 1793

The best moment of love is when the lover leaves in the taxi.

—Michel Foucault, c. 1982

If people think Nature is their friend, then they sure don’t need an enemy.

—Kurt Vonnegut, 1988