We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink, for dining alone is leading the life of a lion or wolf.
—Epicurus, c. 300 BC
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Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands, and goes to work.
—Carl Sandburg, 1959In dealing with the dead, if we treat them as if they were entirely dead, that would show a want of affection and should not be done; or, if we treat them as if they were entirely alive, that would show a want of wisdom and should not be done.
—Confucius, c. 500 BCCommunities do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1863Enemies are so stimulating.
—Katharine Hepburn, 1969The U.S. presidency is a Tudor monarchy plus telephones.
—Anthony Burgess, 1972Curse on all laws but those which love has made.
—Alexander Pope, 1717Men have written in the most convincing manner to prove that death is no evil, and this opinion has been confirmed on a thousand celebrated occasions by the weakest of men as well as by heroes. Even so I doubt whether any sensible person has ever believed it, and the trouble men take to convince others as well as themselves that they do shows clearly that it is no easy undertaking.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1665I cannot live without books, but fewer will suffice where amusement, and not use, is the only future object.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1815There are two times in a man’s life when he should not speculate: when he can’t afford it, and when he can.
—Mark Twain, 1897I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie.
—H. Rap Brown, 1967Nature contains no one constant form.
—Paul-Henri Dietrich d’Holbach, 1770Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.
—Joseph Joubert, 1811