All our enemies are mortal.
—Paul Valéry, 1942
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Fear has a smell, as love does.
—Margaret Atwood, 1972For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven.
—Book of Ecclesiastes, c. 250 BCI shall embrace my rival—until I suffocate him.
—Jean Racine, 1669Why has the government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.
—Alexander Hamilton, 1787Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it, for it is a faculty of the psyche.
—Germaine Greer, 1970Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a centaur, a leopard, a wolf, or a bull?
—Aristophanes, 423 BCMen are able to assist fortune but not to thwart her. They can weave her designs, but they cannot destroy them.
—Niccolò Machiavelli, 1531Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1819Do you suppose that will change the sense of the morals, the fact that we can’t use morals as a means of judging the city because we couldn’t stand it? And that we’re changing our whole moral system to suit the fact that we’re living in a ridiculous way?
—Philip Johnson, 1965Home is the girl’s prison and the woman’s workhouse.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903There are truths that prove their discoverers witless.
—Karl Kraus, 1909If I see something sagging, dragging, or bagging, I’m going to go have the stuff tucked or plucked.
—Dolly Parton, 2003