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"They called me mad, and I called them mad, and damn them, they outvoted me."
-- Nathaniel Lee (on being consigned to a mental institution, circa 17th century)
The greatest possible mint of style is to make the words absolutely disappear into the thought.
-- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
-- Nathaniel Hawthorne
May you live every day of your life.
-- Jonathan Swift
Forget regret, or life is yours to miss.
-- Jonathan Larson
I drink to make other people interesting.
-- George Jean Nathan
We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
-- Jonathan Swift
"Patriotism is an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles."
-- George Jean Nathan
Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.

-- George Jean Nathan
They say it's never too late to learn to play the piano, but at 2 am, I really wish my roommate would quit and go to bed.
-- Nathan Hansar
"As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense."
-- Jonathan Swift
When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
-- Jonathan Swift
I'm in love with a girl who doesn't even know I'm alive.

She thinks she got me with her long range rifle, but she missed.
-- Jonathan Colan
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but they are not entitled to their own facts.
-- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
No, no, you're not thinking, you're just being logical.
-- Niels Bohr
We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in place of reality.
-- Daniel J. Boorstin