Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be breakthrough.
—R.D. Laing, 1967
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It is far, far better and much safer to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.
—John Kenneth Galbraith, 1958Our allotted time is the passing of a shadow.
—Book of Wisdom, c. 100 BCRevenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.
—William Makepeace Thackeray, 1847A monument is money wasted. My memory will live on if my life has deserved it.
—Pliny the Younger, c. 109Why is a ship under sail more poetical than a hog in a high wind? The hog is all nature, the ship is all art.
—Lord Byron, 1821What one man can invent another can discover.
—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1905We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
—Jonathan Swift, 1706It is more blessed to give than to receive.
—Acts of the Apostles, c. 80One who is frivolous all day will never establish a household.
—Ptahhotep, c. 2400 BCCheating is more honorable than stealing.
—German proverbMore pernicious nonsense was never devised by man than treaties of commerce.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1880Too many people have decided to do without generosity in order to practice charity.
—Albert Camus, 1956