There will always be a lost dog somewhere that will prevent me from being happy.
—Jean Anouilh, 1934
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There is nothing sillier than a silly laugh.
—Catullus, c. 60 BCWar is sweet to those who don’t know it.
—Erasmus, 1508There is no small pleasure in sweet water.
—Ovid, c. 10I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king.
—Elizabeth I, 1588A merchant shall hardly keep himself from doing wrong.
—Ecclesiasticus, c. 180 BCEverything that has wings is beyond the reach of the law.
—Joseph Joubert, 1791A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
—Ouida, 1880You can’t find the soul with a scalpel.
—Gustave Flaubert, c. 1880If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.
—Dorothy ParkerNo one’s serious at seventeen.
—Arthur Rimbaud, 1870The mind is led on, step by step, to defeat its own logic.
—Dai Vernon, 1994A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
—Jane Austen, 1814