Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes and pompous in the grave.
—Thomas Browne, 1658
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While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact.
—Andrea Dworkin, 1983Exchange is no robbery.
—German proverbRebellion is no less a sin than divination.
—Book of Samuel, c. 550 BCThough this be madness, yet there is method in’t.
—William Shakespeare, 1603I count myself in nothing else so happy / As in a soul remembering my good friends.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1595You can’t find the soul with a scalpel.
—Gustave Flaubert, c. 1880We never are definitely right; we can only be sure we are wrong.
—Richard P. Feynman, 1965According to the law of custom, and perhaps of reason, foreign travel completes the education of an English gentleman.
—Edward Gibbon, c. 1794Television is democracy at its ugliest.
—Paddy Chayefsky, 1976Never make a defense or apology before you be accused.
—Charles I, 1636In the name of Hippocrates doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.
—Luis Buñuel, 1983Nature’s rules have no exceptions.
—Herbert Spencer, 1851