I mean, why on earth (outside sickness and hangovers) aren’t people continually drunk? I want ecstasy of the mind all the time.
—Jack Kerouac, 1957
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When the root lives on, the new leaves come back.
—Aeschylus, c. 458 BCNobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.
—Jane Austen, 1815If men are to wait for liberty till they become wise and good in slavery, they may indeed wait forever.
—Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1843The boy is, of all wild beasts, the most difficult to manage.
—Plato, c. 348 BCLife is no way to treat an animal.
—Kurt Vonnegut, 2005Jokes are grievances.
—Marshall McLuhan, 1969A first-class man subsists on the matter he destroys.
—Saul Bellow, 1989Night is torment. That is why people go to sleep. To avoid clear sight and torment.
—Dorothy M. Richardson, 1923One’s body, hair, and skin are a gift from one’s parents—do not dare to allow them to be harmed.
—Classic of Filial Piety, c. 200 BCReading is learning, but applying is also learning and the more important kind of learning at that.
—Mao Zedong, 1936We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
—Jonathan Swift, 1706Keep no company with those whose position is high but whose morals are low.
—Ge Hong, c. 320