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A woman’s greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill.

—Pericles, c. 450 BC

I am a living symbol of the white man’s fear.

—Winnie Mandela, 1985

Writing cannot express words fully; words cannot express thoughts fully.

—The Book of Changes, c. 350 BC

Comedy, like sodomy, is an unnatural act.

—Marty Feldman, 1969

A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated has not the art of getting drunk.

—Samuel Johnson, 1779

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

—Honoré de Balzac, 1847

In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.

—Gertrude Stein, 1937

The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.

—Sigmund Freud, 1912

I cannot live without books, but fewer will suffice where amusement, and not use, is the only future object.

—Thomas Jefferson, 1815

The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a star.

—Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, 1825

Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

—D.H. Lawrence, 1908

Punishment is a sort of medicine.

—Aristotle, c. 340 BC

Language is the archives of history.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844