I will never again command an army in America if we must carry along paid spies. I will banish myself to some foreign country first.
—William Tecumseh Sherman, 1863
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A hick town is one where there is no place to go where you shouldn’t go.
—Alexander Woollcott, c. 1935One race there is of men, one of gods, but from one mother we both draw our breath.
—Pindar, c. 450 BCResearch is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
—Zora Neale Hurston, 1942Very shy people don’t even want to take up the space that their body actually takes up.
—Andy Warhol, 1975Do not ask me to be kind; just ask me to act as though I were.
—Jules Renard, 1898If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
—Mark Twain, 1894Why is not a rat as good as a rabbit? Why should men eat shrimps and neglect cockroaches?
—Henry Ward Beecher, 1862People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.
—Edmund Burke, 1790Man is a troublesome animal and therefore is not very manageable.
—Plato, c. 349 BCDeath and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891As natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection.
—Charles Darwin, 1859One religion is as true as another.
—Robert Burton, 1621