311 Stereolithic Quotes & Sayings

The happy and powerful do not go into exile, and there are no surer guarantees of equality among men than poverty and misfortune. — Alexis De Tocqueville

Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape. — Michel De Montaigne

In a moment of sheer terror, I realized I couldn't feel my brain. It was there just a minute ago. Maybe I really was dead. Do I look dead to you? — Darynda Jones

Big words seldom accompany good deeds. — Charlotte Whitton

Trellis wants his salutary book to be read by all. He realizes that purely a moralizing tract would not reach the public. Therefore he is putting plenty of smut into his book. — Flann O'Brien

Life is like defusing a bomb, once you cut the wrong wire your whole life is ruined. — Mohamed Zahy Hussain

Our intuitions fail us. We rightly associate the Holocaust with Nazi ideology, but forget that many of the killers were not Nazis or even Germans. We think first of German Jews, although almost all of the Jews killed in the Holocaust lived beyond Germany. We — Timothy Snyder

I often think that eventually I'd love to do some papers ... my correspondence if life calms down a bit, but I think I'd do history or English literature ... I've had enough of journos. — Brooke Fraser