"Our tastes greatly alter. The lad does not care for the child's rattle, and the old man does not care for the young man's whore."

Johnson, Samuel | Generations | 1 bookmarks

"Sir, I do not call a gamester a dishonest man; but I call him an unsociable man, an unprofitable man. Gaming is a mode of transferring property without producing any intermediate good."

Johnson, Samuel | Gambling | 1 bookmarks

"The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay, or dislike hourly increased by causes too slender for complaint, and too numerous for removal."

Johnson, Samuel | Friends and Friendship | 2 bookmarks

"There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex."

Johnson, Samuel | Flirting | 1 bookmarks

"A new world is not made simply by trying to forget the old. A new world is made with a new spirit, with new values. Our world may have begun that way, but today it is caricature. Our world is a world of things. What we dread most, in the face of the impending debacle, is that we shall be obliged to give up our gewgaws, our gadgets, all the little comforts that have made us so uncomfortable. We are not peaceful souls; we are smug, timid, queasy and quaky."

Miller, Henry | New World | 5 bookmarks

"I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing."

Smith, Logan Pearsall | Friends and Friendship | 2 bookmarks

"The government who robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul."

Shaw, George Bernard | Debt | 4 bookmarks

"Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality."

Marston, Ralph | Reality | 1 bookmarks

"Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive."

Barthes, Roland | Speech | 1 bookmarks

"The photographic image... is a message without a code."

Barthes, Roland | Photography | 2 bookmarks