The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

‘A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drownded,’ he said ‘for he will be going out
on a day he shouldn’t. But we do be afraid of the sea, and we do only be drownded now and
again.’
‘The Aran Islands’ (1907) pt. 2
‘A translation is no translation,’ he said, ‘unless it will give you the music of a poem along
with the words of it.’
‘The Aran Islands’ (1907) pt. 3
Oh my grief, I’ve lost him surely. I’ve lost the only Playboy of the Western World.
‘The Playboy of the Western World’ (1907) act 3 (last lines)
7.196 Thomas Szasz 1920—
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be
wrong.
‘The Second Sin’ (1973) ‘Childhood’
A teacher should have maximal authority and minimal power.
‘The Second Sin’ (1973) ‘Education’
Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now
usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.
‘The Second Sin’ (1973) ‘Emotions’
The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naïve forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not
forget.
‘The Second Sin’ (1973) ‘Personal Conduct’
If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. If the dead
talk to you, you are a spiritualist; if God talks to you, you are a schizophrenic.
‘The Second Sin’ (1973) ‘Schizophrenia’
Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now,
when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.
‘The Second Sin’ (1973) ‘Science and Scientism’
Masturbation: the primary sexual activity of mankind. In the nineteenth century, it was a
disease; in the twentieth, it’s a cure.
‘The Second Sin’ (1973) ‘Sex’
Two wrongs don’t make a right, but they make a good excuse.
‘The Second Sin’ (1973) ‘Social Relations’
7.197 Albert von Szent-Györgyi 1893-1986
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
In Irving Good (ed.) ‘The Scientist Speculates’ (1962) p. 15
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