Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
—John Berger, 1972
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War has silenced all laws.
—Lucan, c. 65The march of the human mind is slow.
—Edmund Burke, 1775It is far, far better and much safer to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.
—John Kenneth Galbraith, 1958A hick town is one where there is no place to go where you shouldn’t go.
—Alexander Woollcott, c. 1935The life of spies is to know, not be known.
—George Herbert, c. 1621I cannot bear a parent’s tears.
—Virgil, c. 25 BCEvery creature in the world is like a book and a picture, to us, and a mirror.
—Alain de Lille, c. 1200In a true democracy, everyone can be upper-class and live in Connecticut.
—Lisa Birnbach, 1980We should have a great many fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
—John Locke, 1690Man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all.
—Aristotle, c. 350 BCNot all heads have a brain.
—French proverbNature never jests.
—Albrecht von Haller, 1751