Hunting is all that’s worth living for—all time is lost what is not spent in hunting—it is like the air we breathe—if we have it not we die—it’s the sport of kings, the image of war without its guilt.
—Robert Smith Surtees, 1843
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Machines seem to sense that I am afraid of them. It makes them hostile.
—Sharyn McCrumb, 1990Today’s city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.
—Martin Oppenheimer, 1969It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
—Dolores Ibárruri, 1936Let us make our own mistakes, but let us take comfort in the knowledge that they are our own mistakes.
—Tom Mboya, 1958To live outside the law you must be honest.
—Bob Dylan, 1966Scandal begins where the police leave off.
—Karl Kraus, 1909Revolutions are always verbose.
—Leon Trotsky, 1933We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do.
—Barbara Ward, 1972Big head, little wit.
—French proverbWhat a glut of books! Who can read them? As already, we shall have a vast chaos and confusion of books; we are oppressed with them, our eyes ache with reading, our fingers with turning.
—Robert Burton, 1621A monument is money wasted. My memory will live on if my life has deserved it.
—Pliny the Younger, c. 109The true art of memory is the art of attention.
—Samuel Johnson, 1759