No lyric poems live long or please many people which are written by drinkers of water.
—Horace, 20 BC
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Man is a tool-using animal. Nowhere do you find him without tools; without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
—Thomas Carlyle, 1836Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
—H.G. Wells, 1920Your mind’s got to eat, too.
—Dambudzo Marechera, 1978Are we not ourselves nature, nature without end?
—Stanisław Lem, 1961The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
—Erich Fromm, 1941I’ve got some shit I’m conservative about and some shit I’m liberal about. Crime—I’m conservative. Prostitution—I’m liberal.
—Chris Rock, 2008New things are always ugly.
—Willa Cather, 1921Some nights are like honey—and some like wine—and some like wormwood.
—L.M. Montgomery, 1927Don’t talk to me about naval tradition. It’s nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash.
—Winston Churchill, 1939When the root lives on, the new leaves come back.
—Aeschylus, c. 458 BCNo human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called games.
—W.H. Auden, 1962Friendship itself will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
—Robert Wilson Lynd, 1924