By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.
—Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1955
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As the saying goes, an old woman is always uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb.
—Chinua Achebe, 1958Disease is not of the body but of the place.
—Latin proverbI have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.
—Maya Angelou, 1993’Tis the sport to have the engineer / Hoist with his own petard.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1600Most vegetarians I ever saw looked enough like their food to be classed as cannibals.
—Finley Peter Dunne, 1900God 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, 1913Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve and from which he cannot escape.
—Erich Fromm, 1947Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
—H.G. Wells, 1920Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
—Lord Acton, 1887Envy is the basis of democracy.
—Bertrand Russell, 1930A fair complexion is unbecoming to a sailor: he ought to be swarthy from the waters of the sea and the rays of the sun.
—Ovid, c. 1 BCEvery man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.
—Samuel Johnson, 1780