An honest man is all right even if he’s an idiot…but a crook must have brains.
—Maxim Gorky, 1902
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The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.
—Germaine Greer, 1970Television is democracy at its ugliest.
—Paddy Chayefsky, 1976In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.
—V.S. Pritchett, 1968Water astonishing and difficult altogether makes a meadow and a stroke.
—Gertrude Stein, 1914Men worry over the great number of diseases, while doctors worry over the scarcity of effective remedies.
—Bian Qiao, c. 500 BCSex and drugs and rock and roll.
—Ian Dury, 1977Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.
—Joseph Joubert, 1811Spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings are strangely silent where once they were filled with the beauty of birdsong.
—Rachel Carson, 1962’Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1595If there is a word in the dictionary under any letter from A to Z that I abominate, it is energy.
—Charles Dickens, 1865A dead enemy always smells good.
—Aulus Vitellius, 69The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
—Albert Einstein, 1936