More and more I like to take a train. I understand why the French prefer it to automobiling—it is so much more sociable, and of course these days so much more of an adventure, and the irregularity of its regularity is fascinating.
—Gertrude Stein, 1943
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The law is not the same at morning and at night.
—George Herbert, c. 1633The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.
—Steve Biko, 1971I am sure of this: that if everybody was to drink their bottle a day, there would not be half the disorders in the world there are now.
—Jane Austen, c. 1798The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family.
—Paul Johnson, 1989If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay in solid cash—the tribute which philistinism owes to culture, the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let us thank heaven for hypocrisy.
—Aldous Huxley, 1926In the society of men, the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not. Our social realities are so ugly if seen in the light of exiled truth, and beauty is almost no longer possible if it is not a lie.
—R.D. Laing, 1967Some nights are like honey—and some like wine—and some like wormwood.
—L.M. Montgomery, 1927I have always been of the mind that in a democracy, manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie knife.
—James Russell Lowell, 1873Let the French but have England, and they won’t want to conquer it.
—Horace Walpole, 1745Football causeth fighting, brawling, contention, quarrel picking, murder, homicide and great effusion of bloode, as daily experience teacheth.
—Philip Stubbes, 1583Only the little people pay taxes.
—Leona Helmsley, 1989The gods play games with men as balls.
—Plautus, c. 200 BC