Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968
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Refrigerators and television sets, or even rockets sent to the moon, do not change man into God.
—Czesław Miłosz, 1960The fear of war is worse than war itself.
—Seneca, c. 50Go to the ant, you lazybones; consider its ways, and be wise.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 350 BCOne’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
—George Santayana, c. 1914Sooner or later if the activity of the mind is restricted anywhere, it will cease to function even where it is allowed to be free.
—Edith Hamilton, 1930The brightest light burns the quickest.
—Olive Beatrice Muir, 1900The sea hath no king but God alone.
—Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1881Intolerance is evidence of impotence.
—Aleister Crowley, c. 1925The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.
—Anna Jameson, 1846In a court of fowls, the cockroach never wins its case.
—Rwandan proverbOften an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.
—Hesiod, c. 700 BCMore and more I like to take a train. I understand why the French prefer it to automobiling—it is so much more sociable, and of course these days so much more of an adventure, and the irregularity of its regularity is fascinating.
—Gertrude Stein, 1943