The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of a gun.
—P.G. Wodehouse, 1929
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One’s body, hair, and skin are a gift from one’s parents—do not dare to allow them to be harmed.
—Classic of Filial Piety, c. 200 BCLet your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need—a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing.
—Jerome K. Jerome, 1889Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1665No man has any natural authority over his fellow man.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762There is no art without Eros.
—Max Frisch, 1983A monument is money wasted. My memory will live on if my life has deserved it.
—Pliny the Younger, c. 109Fate leads the willing and drags along those who hang back.
—Cleanthes, c. 250 BCThe human working stock is of interest only insofar as it is profitable.
—Simone de Beauvoir, 1970God is a complex of ideas formed by the tribe, the nation, and humanity, which awake and organize social feelings and aim to link the individual to society and to bridle the zoological individualism.
—Maxim Gorky, 1913I’ve been on a calendar, but never on time.
—Marilyn Monroe, 1962I imagine that one of the first forms of behavior, like one of the first signals, may be reduced to this: “Keep me warm.”
—Michel Serres, 1982Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.
—Pericles, c. 431 BC