Friendship! Sir, there can be no such thing without an equality.
—George Farquhar, 1702
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I used to think that everyone was just being funny. But now I don’t know. I mean, how can you tell?
—Andy Warhol, 1970Hunting is all that’s worth living for—all time is lost what is not spent in hunting—it is like the air we breathe—if we have it not we die—it’s the sport of kings, the image of war without its guilt.
—Robert Smith Surtees, 1843You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
—Cormac McCarthy, 2005’Tis the sport to have the engineer / Hoist with his own petard.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1600A crust of bread and a corner to sleep in / A minute to smile and an hour to weep in.
—Paul Laurence Dunbar, 1895It’s good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for a while their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a little while, neighbors help neighbors and strangers help strangers.
—Maya Angelou, 2011Health in all lands is among the indispensable guarantees of human progress.
—Helen Keller, 1936The root of the kingdom is in the State. The root of the State is in the family. The root of the family is in the person of its Head.
—Mencius, c. 270 BCOf all the creatures that breathe and creep on the surface of the earth, none is more to be pitied than man.
—Homer, c. 750 BCIt may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me.
—Martin Luther King Jr., 1962At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.
—Rose Macaulay, 1925Keep running after a dog, and he will never bite you.
—François Rabelais, 1535