No wise man ever wished to be younger.
—Jonathan Swift, 1706
Archive
Quotes
It is a greater advantage to be honestly educated than honorably born.
—Erasmus, 1518Most people who sneer at technology would starve to death if the engineering infrastructure were removed.
—Robert A. Heinlein, 1984The life of a sailor is very unhealthy.
—Francis Galton, 1883Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.
—Aleister Crowley, 1904Laughter always arises from a gaiety of disposition, absolutely incompatible with contempt and indignation.
—Voltaire, 1736There is a kind of revolution of so general a character that it changes the mental tastes as well as the fortunes of the world.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1665Good men must not obey the laws too well.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844The art of invention grows young with the things invented.
—Francis Bacon, 1605There is no small pleasure in sweet water.
—Ovid, c. 10God never sent a messenger save with the language of his folk, that he might make the message clear for them.
—The Qur’an, c. 620Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.
—Paul Valéry, 1943Only the little people pay taxes.
—Leona Helmsley, 1989