They say that gifts persuade even the gods.
—Euripides, 431 BC
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Let us leave this Europe which never stops talking of Man yet massacres him at every one of its street corners, at every corner of the world.
—Frantz Fanon, 1961He who would be happy should stay at home.
—Greek proverbThose who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.
—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688If I see something sagging, dragging, or bagging, I’m going to go have the stuff tucked or plucked.
—Dolly Parton, 2003Trade’s proud empire hastes to swift decay.
—Oliver Goldsmith, 1770The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.
—André Breton, 1937I am a friend of the workingman, and I would rather be his friend than be one.
—Clarence Darrow, 1932If men are to wait for liberty till they become wise and good in slavery, they may indeed wait forever.
—Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1843Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
—E.B. White, 1944A machine is a slave that neither brings nor bears degradation.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1844Some nights are like honey—and some like wine—and some like wormwood.
—L.M. Montgomery, 1927A good dog, sir, deserves a good bone.
—Ben Jonson, 1633