One’s friends are divided into two classes, those one knows because one must and those one knows because one mustn’t.
—Sybil Taylor, 1922
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The pleasure we hold in esteem for the course of our lives ought to have a greater share of our time dedicated to it; we should refuse no occasion nor omit any opportunity of drinking, and always have it in our minds.
—Michel de Montaigne, 1580No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it.
—Andrea Dworkin, 1978Drinking with women is as unnatural as scolding with ’em.
—William Wycherley, 1675Keep running after a dog, and he will never bite you.
—François Rabelais, 1535The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
—Charles Darwin, 1871The misfortune of the man of color is having been enslaved. The misfortune and inhumanity of the white man are having killed man somewhere.
—Frantz Fanon, 1952There is no greater sorrow than to recall a happy time in the midst of wretchedness.
—Dante Alighieri, c. 1321The first mistake of art is to assume that it’s serious.
—Lester Bangs, 1971Colonialism has meant selling our ore and being left with the holes.
—Samora Moisés Machel, c. 1976Friendship itself will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
—Robert Wilson Lynd, 1924Many need no other provocation to enmity than that they find themselves excelled.
—Samuel Johnson, 1751In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.
—Michel Foucault, 1975