Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
—Ulysses S. Grant, 1877
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A crust of bread and a corner to sleep in / A minute to smile and an hour to weep in.
—Paul Laurence Dunbar, 1895What one man can invent another can discover.
—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1905To be too conscious is an illness—a real thoroughgoing illness.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1864The righteous know the needs of their animals, but the mercy of the wicked is cruel.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 500 BCA good dog, sir, deserves a good bone.
—Ben Jonson, 1633Charity is murder and you know it.
—Dorothy Parker, 1956Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society.
—Mark Twain, 1873Keep away from physicians. It is all probing and guessing and pretending with them. They leave it to nature to cure in her own time, but they take the credit. As well as very fat fees.
—Anthony Burgess, 1964I take it as a prime cause of the present confusion of society that it is too sickly and too doubtful to use pleasure frankly as a test of value.
—Rebecca West, 1939Attend to earth,
for it is to earth that kings are truly wedded.
A miracle entails a degree of irrationality—not because it shocks reason, but because it makes no appeal to it.
—Emmanuel Lévinas, 1952It is one thing to slander, another to accuse.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 56 BC