I have always found it in mine own experience an easier matter to devise many and profitable inventions than to dispose of one of them to the good of the author himself.
—Hugh Plat, 1595
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Quotes
Television is democracy at its ugliest.
—Paddy Chayefsky, 1976We must not always talk in the marketplace of what happens to us in the forest.
—Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1850We are as near to heaven by sea as by land!
—Humphrey Gilbert, 1583The less a man knows about the past and the present, the more insecure must prove to be his judgment of the future.
—Sigmund Freud, 1927I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That’s what sitting on your ass does to your face.
—Leonard Cohen, 1970Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth but not its twin.
—Barbara Kingsolver, 1990The fact is certain because it is impossible.
—Tertullian, c. 200I look for the end of the future, but it never ceases to arrive.
—Zhuangzi, c. 325 BCIt costs a lot of money to be rich.
—Peter Boyle, 2002Rivalry adds so much to the charms of one’s conquests.
—Louisa May Alcott, 1866Man is merely a more perfect animal than the rest. He reasons better.
—Napoleon Bonaparte, 1816Africa has her mysteries, and even a wise man cannot understand them. But a wise man respects them.
—Miriam Makeba, 1988