It is not my design to drink or sleep; my design is to make what haste I can to be gone.
—Oliver Cromwell, 1658
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No lyric poems live long or please many people which are written by drinkers of water.
—Horace, 20 BCTwo things only the people anxiously desire, bread and the circus games.
—Juvenal, c. 121Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903Rewards and punishment are the lowest form of education.
—Zhuangzi, c. 286 BCThe successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
—Erich Fromm, 1941Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth. Suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully.
—Julie Burchill, 1986To put one’s trust in God is only a longer way of saying that one will chance it.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1890The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.
—Ursula K. Le Guin, 1983Very shy people don’t even want to take up the space that their body actually takes up.
—Andy Warhol, 1975Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.
—Rosa Luxemburg, 1918There’s folks ’ud hold a sieve under the pump and expect to carry away the water.
—George Eliot, 1859Gossip isn’t scandal and it’s not merely malicious. It’s chatter about the human race by lovers of the same.
—Phyllis McGinley, 1957