To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.
- Lavater, Johann Kaspar
- Lavater, Johann Kaspar
Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.
- Saying, Zen
- Saying, Zen
What is sensuality? Not the enjoyment of holy glorious matter, but blindness to its meaning.
- MS. 1842.
- MS. 1842.
O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! That we should with joy, pleasance, revel, and applause transform ourselves into beasts!
- Shakespeare, William
- Shakespeare, William
It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress.
- Mark Twain
- Mark Twain
If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.
- Vonnegut Jr., Kurt
- Vonnegut Jr., Kurt
The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists - that is why they invented hell.
- Bertrand Russell
- Bertrand Russell
I find television very educational. Every time someone switches it on I go into another room and read a good book.
- Marx, Groucho
- Marx, Groucho
Skepticism has never founded empires, established principles, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.
- Chapin, Edwin Hubbel
- Chapin, Edwin Hubbel
All right, brain, you don't like me, and I don't like you, but let's just get me through this, and I can get back to killing you with beer.
- Matt Groening
- Matt Groening
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
- Franklin, Benjamin
- Franklin, Benjamin
Nobody ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have while trying to write one.
- Robert Byrne
- Robert Byrne
Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.
- Barthes, Roland
- Barthes, Roland
Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.
- Steinem, Gloria
- Steinem, Gloria
The human mind is indeed a cave swarming with strange forms of life, most of them unconscious and unilluminated. Unless we can understand something as to how the motives that issue from this obscurity are generated, we can hardly hope to foresee or control them.
- Cooley, Charles Horton
- Cooley, Charles Horton
You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker.
- Malcolm X
- Malcolm X
If you don't accept responsibility for your own actions, then you are forever chained to a position of defense.
- Holly Lisle
- Holly Lisle
There is nothing you can say in answer to a compliment. I have been complimented myself a great many times, and they always embarrass me --I always feel that they have not said enough.
- Twain, Mark
- Twain, Mark
The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return the better to thinking.
- Phaedrus
- Phaedrus
We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.
- Picasso, Pablo
- Picasso, Pablo
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