If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater, suggest that he wear a tail.
—Fran Lebowitz, 1981
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Whatever the apparent cause of any riots may be, the real one is always want of happiness.
—Thomas Paine, 1792The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts.
—Italo Calvino, 1967All the married heiresses I have known have shipwrecked.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1880Men worry over the great number of diseases, while doctors worry over the scarcity of effective remedies.
—Bian Qiao, c. 500 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, 1889A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence university education.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called games.
—W.H. Auden, 1962To hide and feel guilty would be the beginning of defeat.
—Milan Kundera, 1978The mind is led on, step by step, to defeat its own logic.
—Dai Vernon, 1994Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There’s no looking at a building here after seeing Italy.
—Fanny Burney, 1782Exchange is no robbery.
—German proverbNo woman needs intercourse; few women escape it.
—Andrea Dworkin, 1978