All of life is a foreign country.
—Jack Kerouac, 1949
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The sea is mother-death, and she is a mighty female, the one who wins, the one who sucks us all up.
—Anne Sexton, 1971The more corrupt the state, the more numerous its laws.
—Tacitus, c. 110Who lives in fear will never be a free man.
—Horace, 19 BCA good dog, sir, deserves a good bone.
—Ben Jonson, 1633To escape its wretched lot, the populace has three ways, two imaginary and one real. The first two are the rum shop and the church; the third is the social revolution.
—Mikhail Bakunin, 1871The world began without man, and it will end without him.
—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1955The best of all rulers is but a shadowy presence to his subjects.
—LaoziEvery man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.
—Jane Austen, 1818The only places where American medicine can fully live up to its possibilities are the teaching hospitals.
—Bernard De Voto, 1951Night affords the most convenient shade for works of darkness.
—John Taylor, 1750What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains and studying night and day how to fly?
—William Law, 1728Happiness is no laughing matter.
—Richard Whately, 1843