There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
—Michel de Montaigne, 1580
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How sad a sight is human happiness to those whose thoughts can pierce beyond an hour!
—Edward Young, 1741Don’t lose your mind unless you have paid for it.
—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957Ah, there are no children nowadays.
—Molière, 1673I don’t believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.
—Coretta Scott King, 1994Your body is the church where nature asks to be reverenced.
—Marquis de Sade, 1797I’m president of the United States, and I’m not going to eat any more broccoli!
—George H. W. Bush, 1990The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.
—Agnes Repplier, 1929When the missionaries first came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said, “Let us pray.” We closed our eyes. When we opened them, we had the Bible and they had the land.
—Desmond Tutu, 1984Whoever has died is freed from sin.
—St. Paul, c. 50There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink.
—Booth Tarkington, 1914To blow and to swallow at the same time is not easy; I cannot at the same time be here and also there.
—Plautus, c. 200 BCPlough deep while sluggards sleep.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1758