Most vegetarians I ever saw looked enough like their food to be classed as cannibals.
—Finley Peter Dunne, 1900
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I imagined it was more difficult to die.
—Louis XIV, 1715The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1787One’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
—George Santayana, c. 1914It is a greater advantage to be honestly educated than honorably born.
—Erasmus, 1518Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1920Nature’s rules have no exceptions.
—Herbert Spencer, 1851In tampering with the earth, we tamper with a mystery.
—Jonathan Schell, 2000Africa has her mysteries, and even a wise man cannot understand them. But a wise man respects them.
—Miriam Makeba, 1988One’s friends are divided into two classes, those one knows because one must and those one knows because one mustn’t.
—Sybil Taylor, 1922The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
—H.G. Wells, 1905It is not right for a ruler who has the nation in his charge, a man with so much on his mind, to sleep all night.
—Homer, c. 750 BCThe sea hath fish for every man.
—William Camden, 1605