Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words?
—Marcel Marceau, 1958
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A first-class man subsists on the matter he destroys.
—Saul Bellow, 1989Physician, heal yourself: thus you help your patient too. Let his best help be to see with his own eyes the man who makes himself well.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, c. 1884The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
—Horace, c. 25 BCMan’s capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man’s inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
—Reinhold Niebuhr, 1944We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do.
—Barbara Ward, 1972It is a luxury to be understood.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1831The home is a human institution. All human institutions are open to improvement.
—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1903Honest commerce is the great civilizer. We exchange ideas when we exchange fabrics.
—Robert G. Ingersoll, 1882If the heavens were all parchment, and the trees of the forest all pens, and every human being were a scribe, it would still be impossible to record all that I have learned from my teachers.
—Jochanan ben Zakkai, c. 75I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. War is hell.
—William Tecumseh Sherman, 1879If I had the use of my body I would throw it out of the window.
—Samuel Beckett, 1951Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets.
—Andy Warhol, 1975