Hunting is all that’s worth living for—all time is lost what is not spent in hunting—it is like the air we breathe—if we have it not we die—it’s the sport of kings, the image of war without its guilt.
—Robert Smith Surtees, 1843
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God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style. He just goes on trying other things.
—Pablo Picasso, 1964The best moment of love is when the lover leaves in the taxi.
—Michel Foucault, c. 1982Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1886Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing—the rest is mere sheep herding.
—Ezra Pound, 1934Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
—Samuel Johnson, 1750The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
—Henry Fielding, 1730I have loved the stars too truly to be fearful of the night.
—Sarah Williams, 1868Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There’s no looking at a building here after seeing Italy.
—Fanny Burney, 1782Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do.
—Rudy Giuliani, 1999Real friends offer both hard truths and soft landings.
—Anna Quindlen, 2012While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact.
—Andrea Dworkin, 1983Life’s no resting, but a moving.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, c. 1795