There be beasts that, at a year old, observe more, and pursue that which is for their good more prudently, than a child can do at ten.
—Thomas Hobbes, 1651
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I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do—that was one of my favorite things about it—and when I first did it, I felt perverse.
—Diane Arbus, c. 1950“I think, therefore I am” is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.
—Milan Kundera, 1990A tree’s a tree. How many more do you need to look at?
—Ronald Reagan, 1965The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
—Yves Saint Laurent, 1978The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
—B.F. Skinner, 1969I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king.
—Elizabeth I, 1588Too often, where we need water we find guns.
—Ban Ki-moon, 2008He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
—Francis Bacon, 1625Style is the image of character.
—Edward Gibbon, c. 1789There’s plenty of fire in the coldest flint!
—Rachel Field, 1939The future comes like an unwelcome guest.
—Edmund Gosse, 1873Our crime against criminals is that we treat them as villains.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1898