We all have a contract with the public—in us they see themselves, or what they would like to be.
—Clark Gable, 1935
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Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
—Zora Neale Hurston, 1937If a man will observe as he walks the streets, I believe he will find the merriest countenances in mourning coaches.
—Jonathan Swift, 1706A machine is a slave that neither brings nor bears degradation.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1844A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.
—Aldous Huxley, 1934All moanday, tearsday, wailsday, thumpsday, frightday, shatterday till the fear of the Law.
—James Joyce, 1939Familiarity breeds contempt—and children.
—Mark Twain, c. 1900Most authors seek fame, but I seek for justice—a holier impulse than ever entered into the ambitious struggles of the votaries of that fickle, flirting goddess.
—Davy Crockett, 1834Nothing is more narrow-minded than chauvinism or racial hatred. To me all men are equal; there are flatheads everywhere and I despise them all equally.
—Karl Kraus, 1909I hate the sight of monkeys; they remind me so of poor relations.
—Henry Luttrell, 1820Business is other people’s money.
—Delphine de Girardin, 1852Idolatry is the mother of all games.
—Novatian, c. 255He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
—Francis Bacon, 1625