The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.
—Donald Barthelme, 1964
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Who sleepeth with dogs shall rise with fleas.
—John Florio, 1578He that serves God for money will serve the Devil for better wages.
—Roger L’Estrange, 1692I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast, for I intend to go in harm’s way.
—John Paul Jones, 1778I live by good soup, and not on fine language.
—Molière, 1672To live exiled from a place you have known intimately is to experience sensory deprivation. A wide-awake coma.
—Gretel Ehrlich, 1994Man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all.
—Aristotle, c. 350 BCI never practice, I always play.
—Wanda Landowska, 1953A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can’t think of anything else to do.
—W.H. Auden, 1946The body says what words cannot.
—Martha Graham, 1985More pernicious nonsense was never devised by man than treaties of commerce.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1880For sooner will men hold fire in their mouths than keep a secret.
—Petronius, c. 60To be turned from one’s course by men’s opinions, by blame, and by misrepresentation shows a man unfit to hold office.
—Quintus Fabius Maximus, c. 203 BC