After all, crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor.
—John Huston, 1950
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Drive your cart and your plow over the bones of the dead.
—William Blake, c. 1790Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing—the rest is mere sheep herding.
—Ezra Pound, 1934Nothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self; for what we wish, that we readily believe.
—Demosthenes, 349 BCThe sleep of reason produces monsters.
—Francisco Goya, 1799A self-made man is one who believes in luck and sends his son to Oxford.
—Christina Stead, 1938Do we want laurels for ourselves most, / Or most that no one else shall have any?
—Amy Lowell, 1922The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty, and death of public opinion.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1902My father! The sun is my father, and the earth is my mother, and on her bosom I will recline.
—Tecumseh, 1810And your very flesh shall be a great poem.
—Walt Whitman, 1855The fear of the Lord is true wisdom, and he who hath it not can in no way penetrate the true secrets of magic.
—Abraham the Jew, c. 1400At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
—W. Somerset Maugham, 1896Let us make our own mistakes, but let us take comfort in the knowledge that they are our own mistakes.
—Tom Mboya, 1958