No law is sufficiently convenient to all.
—Roman proverb
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Under the wide and starry sky, / Dig the grave and let me lie.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1887Enemies to me are the sauce piquant to my dish of life.
—Elsa Maxwell, 1955Despotism subjects a nation to one tyrant—democracy to many.
—Marguerite Gardiner, 1839The man in constant fear is every day condemned.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BCLord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
—Jonathan Swift, 1738Night is torment. That is why people go to sleep. To avoid clear sight and torment.
—Dorothy M. Richardson, 1923A machine is a slave that neither brings nor bears degradation.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1844It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard for their own interest.
—Adam Smith, 1776Carnal embrace is the practice of throwing one’s arms around a side of beef.
—Tom Stoppard, 1993Anyone who has a child should train him to be either a physicist or a ballet dancer. Then he’ll escape.
—W.H. Auden, 1947The gods play games with men as balls.
—Plautus, c. 200 BCNature never jests.
—Albrecht von Haller, 1751