If you read somebody’s diary, you get what you deserve.
—David Sedaris, 2004
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Every tooth in a man’s head is more valuable than a diamond.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605Eight hours for work, eight hours for sleep, eight hours for what we will.
—Slogan of the National Labor Union of the United States, 1866I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received.
—Antonio Porchia, 1943As usual, what we call “progress” is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.
—Havelock Ellis, 1914The state dictates and coerces; religion teaches and persuades. The state enacts laws; religion gives commandments. The state is armed with physical force and makes use of it if need be; the force of religion is love and benevolence.
—Moses Mendelssohn, 1783Hygienic law, like martial law, supersedes rights in crises.
—Samuel Hopkins Adams, 1913Are we not ourselves nature, nature without end?
—Stanisław Lem, 1961Treaties, you see, are like girls and roses: they last while they last.
—Charles de Gaulle, 1963Travelers, poets, and liars are three words all of one significance.
—Richard Brathwaite, 1631No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.
—Cyril Connolly, 1944Being offended is the natural consequence of leaving one’s home.
—Fran Lebowitz, 1981The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them.
—Denis Diderot, 1777