The belly is the reason why man does not mistake himself for a god.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1886
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Curse on all laws but those which love has made.
—Alexander Pope, 1717I have learned much from disease which life could never have taught me anywhere else.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1830Carnal embrace is the practice of throwing one’s arms around a side of beef.
—Tom Stoppard, 1993Writing cannot express words fully; words cannot express thoughts fully.
—The Book of Changes, c. 350 BCEvery communist must grasp the truth: “Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.”
—Mao Zedong, 1938There are people whom one loves immediately and forever. Even to know they are alive in the world with one is quite enough.
—Nancy Spain, 1956There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.
—Kathleen Norris, 1931And what will history say of me a thousand years hence?
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 59 BCFootball causeth fighting, brawling, contention, quarrel picking, murder, homicide and great effusion of bloode, as daily experience teacheth.
—Philip Stubbes, 1583If fame is only to come after death, I am in no hurry for it.
—Martial, c. 86Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.
—H.L. Mencken, 1919Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.
—Aleister Crowley, 1904