Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.
—Noël Coward, 1930
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Though the boys throw stones at frogs in sport, yet the frogs do not die in sport but in earnest.
—Bion of Smyrna, c. 100 BCEnergy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it, for it is a faculty of the psyche.
—Germaine Greer, 1970The world is for thousands a freak show; the images flicker past and vanish.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1776The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1908Much money makes a country poor, for it sets a dearer price on every thing.
—George Herbert, 1640We should not say that one man’s hour is worth another man’s hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing; he is, at most, time’s carcass.
—Karl Marx, 1847I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.
—Cato the Elder, c. 184 BCEveryone complains about his memory, and no one complains about his judgment.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1666There is no crime without precedent.
—Seneca the Younger, c. 60Disease is not of the body but of the place.
—Latin proverbTo cast aside obedience, and by popular violence to incite revolt, is treason, not against man only, but against God.
—Pope Leo XIII, 1885If not us, who? If not now, when?
—Czech slogan, 1989