Life is no way to treat an animal.
—Kurt Vonnegut, 2005
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We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink, for dining alone is leading the life of a lion or wolf.
—Epicurus, c. 300 BCI look for the end of the future, but it never ceases to arrive.
—Zhuangzi, c. 325 BCFriendship is a plant that loves the sun—thrives ill under clouds.
—Bronson Alcott, 1872What touches all shall be approved by all.
—Edward I, 1295All pain is one malady with many names.
—Antiphanes, c. 400 BCThe tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.
—James Fenimore Cooper, 1838To live outside the law you must be honest.
—Bob Dylan, 1966There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching toward him and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange.
—Elias Canetti, 1960We wish away whole years, and travel through time as through a country filled with many wild and empty wastes, which we would fain hurry over, that we may arrive at those several little settlements or imaginary points of rest which are dispersed up and down in it.
—Joseph Addison, 1711Wherever commerce prevails there will be an inequality of wealth, and wherever the latter does a simplicity of manners must decline.
—James Madison, 1783One’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
—George Santayana, c. 1914The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
—Yves Saint Laurent, 1978