When man wanted to make a machine that would walk, he created the wheel, which does not resemble a leg.
—Guillaume Apollinaire, 1917
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All of life is a foreign country.
—Jack Kerouac, 1949Trade’s proud empire hastes to swift decay.
—Oliver Goldsmith, 1770When a man dies, and his kin are glad of it, they say, “He is better off.”
—Edgar Watson Howe, 1911Power is so apt to be insolent, and Liberty to be saucy, that they are very seldom upon good terms.
—George Savile, c. 1690One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat eight hours a day, nor drink for eight hours a day, nor make love for eight hours.
—William Faulkner, 1958Those who believe in freedom of the will have never loved and never hated.
—Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, 1893A machine is a slave that neither brings nor bears degradation.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1844The severity of a teacher is better than the love of a father.
—Saadi, 1258An exile with no home anywhere is a corpse without a grave.
—Publilius Syrus, 50 BCIt is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
—Thomas Hardy, 1874I have sometimes thought that the laws ought not to punish those actions of evil which are committed when the senses are steeped in intoxication.
—Walt Whitman, 1842It is impossible to tell which of the two dispositions we find in men is more harmful in a republic, that which seeks to maintain an established position or that which has none but seeks to acquire it.
—Niccolò Machiavelli, c. 1515