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A true German can’t stand the French, / Yet willingly he drinks their wines.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1832A criminal may improve and become a decent member of society. A foreigner cannot improve. Once a foreigner, always a foreigner. There is no way out for him.
—George Mikes, 1946As the saying goes, an old woman is always uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb.
—Chinua Achebe, 1958The best way to fill time is to waste it.
—Marguerite Duras, 1987Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
—Anaïs Nin, 1939I hate the sight of monkeys; they remind me so of poor relations.
—Henry Luttrell, 1820Do we want laurels for ourselves most, / Or most that no one else shall have any?
—Amy Lowell, 1922Man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all.
—Aristotle, c. 350 BCThe criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1911It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
—The BibleHealth indeed is a precious thing, to recover and preserve which we undergo any misery, drink bitter potions, freely give our goods—restore a man to his health, his purse lies open to thee.
—Robert Burton, 1621There is nothing sillier than a silly laugh.
—Catullus, c. 60 BC