The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
—Horace, c. 25 BC
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I would delight in music, but the music is discordant.
—Xie Lingyun, c. 425I am a friend of the workingman, and I would rather be his friend than be one.
—Clarence Darrow, 1932I hate the sight of monkeys; they remind me so of poor relations.
—Henry Luttrell, 1820Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.
—Albert Einstein, 1929Misfortune, n. The kind of fortune that never misses.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906One need merely visit the marketplace and the graveyard to determine whether a city is in both physical and metaphysical order.
—Ernst Jünger, 1977Art imitates nature as well as it can, as a pupil follows his master; thus it is a sort of grandchild of God.
—Dante, c. 1315Diseases are not immutable entities but dynamic social constructions that have biographies of their own.
—Robert P. Hudson, 1983At the start there’s always energy.
—Suzan-Lori Parks, 2006Avoid the talk of men. For talk is mischievous, light, and easily raised, but hard to bear and difficult to be rid of. Talk never wholly dies away when many people voice her: even talk is in some ways divine.
—Hesiod, c. 700 BCFamiliarity breeds contempt—and children.
—Mark Twain, c. 1900Our entire history is merely the history of the waking life of man; nobody has yet considered the history of his sleeping life.
—Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, c. 1780