Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
—Oscar Wilde, 1890
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In every man is a wild beast; most of them don’t know how to hold it back, and the majority give it full rein when they are not restrained by terror of law.
—Frederick the Great, 1759Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
—Erica Jong, 1973If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay in solid cash—the tribute which philistinism owes to culture, the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let us thank heaven for hypocrisy.
—Aldous Huxley, 1926He laughs best who laughs last.
—French proverbEvery tooth in a man’s head is more valuable than a diamond.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain there would be no life.
—John Updike, 1989To live outside the law, you must be honest.
—Bob Dylan, 1966I am no courtesan, nor moderator, nor tribune, nor defender of the people: I am myself the people.
—Maximilien Robespierre, 1792Lord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
—Jonathan Swift, 1738Man is a troublesome animal and therefore is not very manageable.
—Plato, c. 349 BCWhat a torture to talk to filled heads that allow nothing from the outside to enter them.
—Joseph Joubert, 1807It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me.
—Martin Luther King Jr., 1962