A woman’s greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill.
—Pericles, c. 450 BCQuotes
I am a living symbol of the white man’s fear.
—Winnie Mandela, 1985Writing cannot express words fully; words cannot express thoughts fully.
—The Book of Changes, c. 350 BCComedy, like sodomy, is an unnatural act.
—Marty Feldman, 1969A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated has not the art of getting drunk.
—Samuel Johnson, 1779Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
—Honoré de Balzac, 1847In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
—Gertrude Stein, 1937The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.
—Sigmund Freud, 1912I cannot live without books, but fewer will suffice where amusement, and not use, is the only future object.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1815The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a star.
—Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, 1825Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.
—D.H. Lawrence, 1908Punishment is a sort of medicine.
—Aristotle, c. 340 BCLanguage is the archives of history.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844