Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but most important, it finds homes for us everywhere.
—Hazel Rochman, 1995
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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.
—Joseph Addison, 1711What are men anyway but balloons on legs, a lot of blown-up bladders?
—Gaius Petronius Arbiter, c. 64A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.
—Ralph Nader, 2000Be courteous to all but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
—George Washington, 1783The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
—Henry Fielding, 1730Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers.
—Voltaire, 1770What a glut of books! Who can read them? As already, we shall have a vast chaos and confusion of books; we are oppressed with them, our eyes ache with reading, our fingers with turning.
—Robert Burton, 1621The true art of memory is the art of attention.
—Samuel Johnson, 1759Now there is fame! Of all—hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public—fame is by far the worst. It is the castigation by God of the artist. It is sad. It is true.
—Pablo Picasso, c. 1961In revolutions men fall and rise. Long before this war is over, much as you hear me praised now, you may hear me cursed and insulted.
—William Tecumseh Sherman, 1864Liberty and democracy are eternal enemies.
—H.L. Mencken, 1925Nobody works as hard for his money as the man who marries it.
—Kin Hubbard