One’s friends are divided into two classes, those one knows because one must and those one knows because one mustn’t.
—Sybil Taylor, 1922
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Most authors seek fame, but I seek for justice—a holier impulse than ever entered into the ambitious struggles of the votaries of that fickle, flirting goddess.
—Davy Crockett, 1834The man in constant fear is every day condemned.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BCAshore it’s wine, women, and song; aboard it’s rum, bum, and concertina.
—British naval saying, c. 1800Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers.
—Voltaire, 1770Suffering has its limit, but fears are endless.
—Pliny the Younger, c. 108Some things are privileged from jest—namely, religion, matters of state, great persons, all men’s present business of importance, and any case that deserves pity.
—Francis Bacon, 1597The future...something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
—C.S. Lewis, 1941Slang is as old as speech and the congregating together of people in cities. It is the result of crowding and excitement and artificial life.
—John Camden Hotten, 1859An exile with no home anywhere is a corpse without a grave.
—Publilius Syrus, 50 BCYou furnish the pictures, and I’ll furnish the war.
—William Randolph Hearst, 1898There was a great deal of drinking among us but little drunkenness. We all seemed to feel that Prohibition was a personal affront and that we had a moral duty to undermine it.
—Elizabeth Anderson, 1969There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891