A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated has not the art of getting drunk.
—Samuel Johnson, 1779
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O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1599Mother died today. Or maybe it was yesterday, I don’t know.
—Albert Camus, 1942A school without grades must have been concocted by someone who was drunk on nonalcoholic wine.
—Karl Kraus, 1909True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.
—Edith Wharton, 1924I have always been of the mind that in a democracy, manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie knife.
—James Russell Lowell, 1873Put national causes first and personal grudges last.
—Sima Qian, c. 91 BCA man is not idle, because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
—Victor Hugo, 1862The life of the city never lets you go, nor do you ever want it to.
—Wallace Stevens, 1952Like a broken gong be still, be silent. Know the stillness of freedom where there is no more striving.
—Siddhartha Gautama, c. 500 BCThe sea hath fish for every man.
—William Camden, 1605There is much difference between imitating a good man, and counterfeiting him.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1738You can steal a lot more with a computer than with a gun.
—Gina Smith, 1997