Today’s city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.
—Martin Oppenheimer, 1969
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It is wretched business to be digging a well just as you’re dying of thirst.
—Plautus, c. 193 BCSlang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands, and goes to work.
—Carl Sandburg, 1959Fame is but the empty noise of madmen.
—Epictetus, c. 100If I see something sagging, dragging, or bagging, I’m going to go have the stuff tucked or plucked.
—Dolly Parton, 2003When a coward sees a man he can beat, he becomes hungry for a fight.
—Chinua Achebe, 1960Nature is immovable.
—Euripides, c. 415 BCDo not fear the clatter of wheels, the bumps and slops in corridors. It is only turbulence.
—Romalyn Ante, 2020Tomorrow we take to the mighty sea.
—Horace, 23 BCSobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes.
—William James, 1902The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man’s body.
—Francis Bacon, 1605No one’s serious at seventeen.
—Arthur Rimbaud, 1870Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.
—Saint Augustine, c. 387