People of the world kill their bodies with desire, kill their posterity with money, kill others with government, and kill the world with scholarship.
—Liu Gaushang
People of the world kill their bodies with desire, kill their posterity with money, kill others with government, and kill the world with scholarship.
—Liu Gaushang
He shaved every day, and since boyhood had always used a poultice of moist bread to prevent the growth of his beard.
—Suetonius
—Life of Otho
Profound blue. Our heart motors. Without pilot.
—Benedetta Marinetti
—Astra e il Sottomarino
The tufted carpet finds the floor very smooth, and gives it silent kisses with its fringes.
—Hector Chainaye
I don’t care if I indulges in a little innocent diwersion, as the boy said ven he run the cockchafer through vith a brass pin.
—G.W.M. Reynolds
Pickwick Abroad
Get away from any man who always argues every time he talks.
—Abbot Pastor
I am a dog and you are my master. So I bark and ask for my dog food.
—Arsenius
And in his grip take barley cakes, dried figs, and cheese, such cheese as scapegoats may feed on.
—Hipponax
Grooms fittest kindle fires, slaves carry burdens, butchers are for slaughters, apothocaries, butlers, cooks, for poisons . . .
—Ben Jonson
—Catiline His Conspiracy