Football causeth fighting, brawling, contention, quarrel picking, murder, homicide and great effusion of bloode, as daily experience teacheth.
—Philip Stubbes, 1583
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Health indeed is a precious thing, to recover and preserve which we undergo any misery, drink bitter potions, freely give our goods—restore a man to his health, his purse lies open to thee.
—Robert Burton, 1621Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1735The life of spies is to know, not be known.
—George Herbert, c. 1621Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
—Mark Twain, 1893The law looks at no one’s face.
—Gabriel Okara, 1964Modern life is often a mechanical oppression, and liquor is the only mechanical relief.
—Ernest Hemingway, 1935Revolutions are always verbose.
—Leon Trotsky, 1933To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.
—Jean Genet, 1949There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.
—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1898We possess art lest we perish of the truth.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1887It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
—The BibleOne’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
—George Santayana, c. 1914