Sex: in America, an obsession; in other parts of the world, a fact.
—Marlene Dietrich, 1962
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A good dog, sir, deserves a good bone.
—Ben Jonson, 1633Those who travel heedlessly from place to place, observing only their distance from each other and attending only to their accommodation at the inn at night, set out fools, and will certainly return so.
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 1747I am no courtesan, nor moderator, nor tribune, nor defender of the people: I am myself the people.
—Maximilien Robespierre, 1792Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
—Henry Kissinger, 1972People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence, and they think they have seen something.
—Søren Kierkegaard, 1843For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.
—Richard Feynman, 1986If you have any soul worth expressing, it will show itself in your singing.
—John Ruskin, 1865They are trying to make me into a fixed star. I am an irregular planet.
—Martin Luther, c. 1530As the saying goes, an old woman is always uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb.
—Chinua Achebe, 1958Real friends offer both hard truths and soft landings.
—Anna Quindlen, 2012Luck takes the step that no one sees.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BCAn exile with no home anywhere is a corpse without a grave.
—Publilius Syrus, 50 BC