A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence university education.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903
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A functioning police state needs no police.
—William S. Burroughs, 1959In my dreams I sleep with everybody.
—Anaïs Nin, 1933Hatred of domestic work is a natural and admirable result of civilization.
—Rebecca West, 1912I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?
—Lord Byron, 1813There will always be a lost dog somewhere that will prevent me from being happy.
—Jean Anouilh, 1934I imagine that one of the first forms of behavior, like one of the first signals, may be reduced to this: “Keep me warm.”
—Michel Serres, 1982A sick child is always the mother’s property; her own feelings generally make it so.
—Jane Austen, 1816No one’s serious at seventeen.
—Arthur Rimbaud, 1870My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
—Jonathan Swift, 1706He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
—Francis Bacon, 1625After midnight the moon set and I was alone with the stars. I have often said that the lure of flying is the lure of beauty, and I need no other flight to convince me that the reason flyers fly, whether they know it or not, is the aesthetic appeal of flying.
—Amelia Earhart, 1935