Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.
—Samuel Johnson, c. 1770
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Rebellion is no less a sin than divination.
—Book of Samuel, c. 550 BCIf you steal, do not steal too much at a time. You may be arrested. Steal cleverly, little by little.
—Mobutu Sese Seko, 1991Many need no other provocation to enmity than that they find themselves excelled.
—Samuel Johnson, 1751To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education.
—John Buchan, 1940To love a woman who scorns you is to lick honey from a thorn.
—Welsh proverbThe doctor occupies a seat in the front row of the stalls of the human drama, and is constantly watching and even intervening in the tragedies, comedies, and tragicomedies which form the raw material of the literary art.
—W. Russell Brain, 1952The day unravels what the night has woven.
—Walter Benjamin, 1929Tell us your phobias and we will tell you what you are afraid of.
—Robert Benchley, 1935Jazz is the result of the energy stored up in America.
—George Gershwin, 1933What experience and history teach is this—that nations and governments have never learned anything from history or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it.
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, 1830It hurts to watch the fluency of a body acclimated to its shackling.
—Leslie Jamison, 2014Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
—Albert Camus, c. 1940