A functioning police state needs no police.
—William S. Burroughs, 1959
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Life’s no resting, but a moving.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, c. 1795I won’t be happy till I’m as famous as God.
—Madonna, c. 1985Soldiers in peace are like chimneys in summer.
—William Cecil, Lord Burghley, c. 1555Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 150 BCCooking is the most massive rush. It’s like having the most amazing hard-on, with Viagra sprinkled on top of it, and it’s still there twelve hours later.
—Gordon Ramsey, 2003How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.
—Søren Kierkegaard, 1843To be turned from one’s course by men’s opinions, by blame, and by misrepresentation shows a man unfit to hold office.
—Quintus Fabius Maximus, c. 203 BCOne who is frivolous all day will never establish a household.
—Ptahhotep, c. 2400 BCThe ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led either to sheer irrelevancy, the famous knowing of more and more about less and less, or to the development of a pseudo-scholarship which actually destroys its object.
—Hannah Arendt, 1972Fashion, n. A despot whom the wise ridicule and obey.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1911Sic semper tyrannis! The South is avenged.
—John Wilkes Booth, 1865A tree’s a tree. How many more do you need to look at?
—Ronald Reagan, 1965