The vice presidency isn’t worth a pitcher of warm piss.
—John Nance Garner, c. 1967
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Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
—B.F. Skinner, 1964One should always have one’s boots on and be ready to leave.
—Michel de Montaigne, 1580The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1615When one has a famishing thirst for happiness, one is apt to gulp down diversions wherever they are offered.
—Alice Hegan Rice, 1917I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
—Galileo Galilei, 1615Ocean. A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man—who has no gills.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
—Zora Neale Hurston, 1942Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a centaur, a leopard, a wolf, or a bull?
—Aristophanes, 423 BCHoping for new friendship from old enemies is / Like expecting to find a rose in a furnace.
—Muhammad Baqir Najm-i Sani, 1612A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
—Jane Austen, 1814Drinking with women is as unnatural as scolding with ’em.
—William Wycherley, 1675More pernicious nonsense was never devised by man than treaties of commerce.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1880