Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1886
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Do you not see how God is praised by those in the heavens and those on earth? The very birds praised Him as they wing their way.
—The Qur’an, c. 620Some people make stuff; other people have to buy it. And when we gave up making stuff, starting in the 1980s, we were left with the unique role of buying.
—Barbara Ehrenreich, 2008Some to the common pulpits, and cry out / “Liberty, freedom, and enfranchisement!”
—William Shakespeare, c. 1599We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink, for dining alone is leading the life of a lion or wolf.
—Epicurus, c. 300 BCTo safeguard one’s health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness indeed.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1678One race there is of men, one of gods, but from one mother we both draw our breath.
—Pindar, c. 450 BCI am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. War is hell.
—William Tecumseh Sherman, 1879There are many civil questions that arise between individuals in which it is not so important the controversy be settled one way or another as that it be settled.
—William Howard Taft, 1921God sells us all things at the price of labor.
—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1500Time, when it is left to itself and no definite demands are made on it, cannot be trusted to move at any recognized pace. Usually it loiters, but just when one has come to count upon its slowness, it may suddenly break into a wild irrational gallop.
—Edith Wharton, 1905The more corrupt the republic, the more numerous the laws.
—Tacitus, c. 117Carnal embrace is the practice of throwing one’s arms around a side of beef.
—Tom Stoppard, 1993