It is remarkable that only small birds properly sing.
—Charles Darwin, 1871
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One who is frivolous all day will never establish a household.
—Ptahhotep, c. 2400 BCFeasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts.
—Aldous Huxley, 1929Life is the art of being well deceived.
—William Hazlitt, c. 1817Go to the ant, you lazybones; consider its ways, and be wise.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 350 BCGlamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
—John Berger, 1972Drunkenness is the very sepulcher / Of man’s wit and his discretion.
—Geoffrey Chaucer, c. 1390Corporations have neither bodies to be punished nor souls to be damned.
—Chinese proverbMost authors seek fame, but I seek for justice—a holier impulse than ever entered into the ambitious struggles of the votaries of that fickle, flirting goddess.
—Davy Crockett, 1834The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of a gun.
—P.G. Wodehouse, 1929If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.
—Dorothy ParkerWriting cannot express words fully; words cannot express thoughts fully.
—The Book of Changes, c. 350 BCTo put one’s trust in God is only a longer way of saying that one will chance it.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1890