A tree’s a tree. How many more do you need to look at?
—Ronald Reagan, 1965
Archive
Quotes
Animals are such agreeable friends—they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
—George Eliot, 1857Man and animals are really the conduit of food, the sepulcher of animals, and resting place of the dead, one causing the death of the other, making themselves the covering for the corruption of other dead bodies.
—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1500The first thing that a new migrant sends to his family back home isn’t money; it’s a story.
—Suketu Mehta, 2019Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.
—Jane Austen, 1811The snotgreen sea. The scrotumtightening sea.
—James Joyce, 1922According to the law of custom, and perhaps of reason, foreign travel completes the education of an English gentleman.
—Edward Gibbon, c. 1794Think rich. Look poor.
—Andy Warhol, 1975Freedom 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, 1999If you steal, do not steal too much at a time. You may be arrested. Steal cleverly, little by little.
—Mobutu Sese Seko, 1991Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets.
—Andy Warhol, 1975The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways—I to die, and you to live. Which is better, only the god knows.
—Socrates, 399 BCIf the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.
—William Hazlitt, 1823