People can say what they like about the eternal verities, love and truth and so on, but nothing’s as eternal as the dishes.
—Margaret Mahy, 1985
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Despotism subjects a nation to one tyrant, democracy to many.
—Marguerite Gardiner, 1839You can put wings on a pig, but you don’t make it an eagle.
—Bill Clinton, 1996Written laws are like spiderwebs: they will catch, it is true, the weak and poor but would be torn in pieces by the rich and powerful.
—Anacharsis, c. 550 BCCommerce has made all winds her ministers.
—John Sterling, 1843It is not a case we are treating; it is a living, palpitating, alas, too often suffering fellow creature.
—John Brown, 1904All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
—Plotinus, c. 255The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.
—Hermann Hesse, 1950Even though counting heads is not an ideal way to govern, at least it is better than breaking them.
—Learned Hand, 1932To safeguard one’s health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness indeed.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1678Let us have peace, but let us have liberty, law, and justice first.
—Frederick Douglass, 1878For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven.
—Book of Ecclesiastes, c. 250 BCAlcohol is the monarch of liquids.
—Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, 1825