The drunken man is a living corpse.
—St. John Chrysostom, c. 390
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Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god.
—Jean Rostand, 1939We get a deal o’ useless things about us, only because we’ve got the money to spend.
—George Eliot, 1860Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers.
—Voltaire, 1770Alone, alone, all, all alone, / Alone on a wide, wide sea!
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1798Health can make money, but money cannot make health.
—Maria Edgeworth, 1833Whatever the apparent cause of any riots may be, the real one is always want of happiness.
—Thomas Paine, 1792There never was a good war or a bad peace.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1773It is not a case we are treating; it is a living, palpitating, alas, too often suffering fellow creature.
—John Brown, 1904Traveling is like gambling: it is ever connected with winning and losing, and generally where least expected we receive more or less than we hoped for.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1797There is no greater sorrow than to recall a happy time in the midst of wretchedness.
—Dante Alighieri, c. 1321Only the little people pay taxes.
—Leona Helmsley, 1989God seems to have left the receiver off the hook, and time is running out.
—Arthur Koestler, 1967