The less a man knows about the past and the present, the more insecure must prove to be his judgment of the future.
—Sigmund Freud, 1927
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A broken friendship may be soldered but will never be sound.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.
—Wendell Phillips, 1859People can say what they like about the eternal verities, love and truth and so on, but nothing’s as eternal as the dishes.
—Margaret Mahy, 1985We are to go to law never to revenge, but only to repair.
—Samuel Pepys, 1661Speak without regard for the consequences, and it is too late for silence when disaster strikes.
—Huan Kuan, 81 BCThe discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a star.
—Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, 1825You cannot endow even the best machine with initiative; the jolliest steamroller will not plant flowers.
—Walter Lippmann, 1913A change of fortune hurts a wise man no more than a change of the moon.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1732The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
—Horace, c. 25 BCThe fundamental concept in social science is power, in the same sense in which energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
—Bertrand Russell, 1938By night an atheist half believes a God.
—Edward Young, c. 1745Rivalry is the whetstone of talent.
—Roman proverb