A false report rides post.
—English proverb
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War is sweet to those who don’t know it.
—Erasmus, 1508Information can tell us everything. It has all the answers. But they are answers to questions we have not asked, and which doubtless don’t even arise.
—Jean Baudrillard, c. 1987The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts.
—Italo Calvino, 1967When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.
—Ursula K. Le Guin, 1969What timid man does not avoid contact with the sick, fearing lest he contract a disease so near?
—Ovid, c. 10Jazz is the result of the energy stored up in America.
—George Gershwin, 1933I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast, for I intend to go in harm’s way.
—John Paul Jones, 1778Friends are fictions founded on some single momentary experience.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1864The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chawing a hunk of melon in the dust.
—Elizabeth Bowen, 1955It is one thing to slander, another to accuse.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 56 BCHowever harmless a thing is, if the law forbids it, most people will think it wrong.
—W. Somerset Maugham, 1896Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.
—Tennessee Williams, 1951