Everything that has wings is beyond the reach of the law.
—Joseph Joubert, 1791
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Speech is the mirror of the soul; as a man speaks, so is he.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BCSpeak without regard for the consequences, and it is too late for silence when disaster strikes.
—Huan Kuan, 81 BCHe laughs best who laughs last.
—French proverbMan is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1890Let my epitaph be, “Here lies Joseph, who failed in everything he undertook.”
—Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II, 1790The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletariat to the level of bourgeois stupidity.
—Gustave Flaubert, 1871It seems to me that we all look at nature too much and live with her too little.
—Oscar Wilde, 1897Those who know the joys and miseries of celebrities when they have passed the age of forty know how to defend themselves.
—Sarah Bernhardt, 1904Many need no other provocation to enmity than that they find themselves excelled.
—Samuel Johnson, 1751Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.
—Margaret Mead, 1972There was a great deal of drinking among us but little drunkenness. We all seemed to feel that Prohibition was a personal affront and that we had a moral duty to undermine it.
—Elizabeth Anderson, 1969The law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.
—Voltairine de Cleyre, 1890