You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation.
—Billie Holiday, 1956
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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.
—D.H. Lawrence, 1908A good dog, sir, deserves a good bone.
—Ben Jonson, 1633No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in vain tried to put into our heads before.
—Jonathan Swift, 1706Nature’s rules have no exceptions.
—Herbert Spencer, 1851Nature contains no one constant form.
—Paul-Henri Dietrich d’Holbach, 1770Let us have peace, but let us have liberty, law, and justice first.
—Frederick Douglass, 1878Many are the wonders of the world, and none so wonderful as man.
—Sophocles, c. 441 BCI’ve seen the future, brother; it is murder.
—Leonard Cohen, 1992Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.
—Plato, c. 375 BCSeize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.
—André Gide, 1897God is a complex of ideas formed by the tribe, the nation, and humanity, which awake and organize social feelings and aim to link the individual to society and to bridle the zoological individualism.
—Maxim Gorky, 1913Football causeth fighting, brawling, contention, quarrel picking, murder, homicide and great effusion of bloode, as daily experience teacheth.
—Philip Stubbes, 1583