Shamelessness is the shame of being without shame.
—Mencius, c. 290 BC
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Journalists belong in the gutter, because that is where the ruling classes throw their guilty secrets.
—Gerald Priestland, 1988The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them.
—Denis Diderot, 1777An ugly sight, a man who’s afraid.
—Jean Anouilh, 1944It raineth every day, and the weather represents our tearful despair on a large scale.
—Mary Boykin Chesnut, 1865And what will history say of me a thousand years hence?
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 59 BCRevolutions are not made by men in spectacles.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1871Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 150 BCIt is wretched business to be digging a well just as you’re dying of thirst.
—Plautus, c. 193 BCA broken friendship may be soldered but will never be sound.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732Every man must descend into the flesh to meet mankind.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1910The merchant always has fresh losses to expect, and the dread of base poverty forbids his rest.
—Decimus Magnus Ausonius, c. 390