Business? Why, it’s very simple; business is other people’s money.
—Alexandre Dumas, 1857
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Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968Happiness, whether in business or private life, leaves very little trace in history.
—Fernand Braudel, 1979Water is the readiest means of making friends with nature.
—Ludwig Feuerbach, 1841What experience and history teach is this—that nations and governments have never learned anything from history or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it.
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, 1830Nothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self; for what we wish, that we readily believe.
—Demosthenes, 349 BCThe life of a sailor is very unhealthy.
—Francis Galton, 1883Where it is a duty to worship the sun, it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.
—John Morley, 1872A god cannot procure death for himself, even if he wished it, which, so numerous are the evils of life, has been granted to man as our chief good.
—Pliny the Elder, c. 77Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.
—G.C. Lichtenberg, c. 1780Language is the archives of history.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
—Colette, 1944