The United States has virtually set up an empire on impounded and redistributed water.
—Charles P. Berkey, 1946
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Law makes long spokes of the short stakes of men.
—William Empson, 1928Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.
—William Makepeace Thackeray, 1847The worship of opinion is, at this day, the established religion of the United States.
—Harriet Martineau, 1839Such then is the human state, that to wish greatness for one’s country is to wish harm to one’s neighbors.
—Voltaire, 1764Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets.
—Andy Warhol, 1975A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always count on the support of Paul.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1944There are truths that prove their discoverers witless.
—Karl Kraus, 1909Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.
—W.H. Auden, c. 1940We are to go to law never to revenge, but only to repair.
—Samuel Pepys, 1661There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of puritanism, and that is the impulse to punish the man with a superior capacity for happiness.
—H.L. Mencken, 1920Till taught by pain, / Men really know not what good water’s worth.
—Lord Byron, 1819Profit is profit even in Mecca.
—Nigerian proverb