If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.
—Henry Clay, 1812
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People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.
—Edmund Burke, 1790If I had the use of my body I would throw it out of the window.
—Samuel Beckett, 1951The more religious a country is, the more crimes are committed in it.
—Napoleon Bonaparte, 1817The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them.
—Denis Diderot, 1777I am weary of friends, and friendships are all monsters.
—Jonathan Swift, 1710The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
—Henry Fielding, 1730Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous.
—Pierre Boulez, 1989Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
—Gore Vidal, 1981Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1928Home is the girl’s prison and the woman’s workhouse.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903The best way to fill time is to waste it.
—Marguerite Duras, 1987Every man is worth just so much as the things he busies himself with.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 175