There ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.
—Mark Twain, 1894
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A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated has not the art of getting drunk.
—Samuel Johnson, 1779It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me.
—Martin Luther King Jr., 1962The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.
—Edward VIII, 1957No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation.
—Woodrow Wilson, 1915Everyone knows about everybody in Hollywood—who sleeps with whom, who doesn’t sleep, who does it standing on his head or in the dentist’s chair.
—Rock Hudson, 1982To safeguard one’s health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness indeed.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1678I have always found it in mine own experience an easier matter to devise many and profitable inventions than to dispose of one of them to the good of the author himself.
—Hugh Plat, 1595They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
—Francis Bacon, 1605God sells us all things at the price of labor.
—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1500In revolutions men fall and rise. Long before this war is over, much as you hear me praised now, you may hear me cursed and insulted.
—William Tecumseh Sherman, 1864A crowded police court docket is the surest sign that trade is brisk and money plenty.
—Mark Twain, 1872No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it.
—Andrea Dworkin, 1978