The three little sentences that will get you through life. Number 1: Cover for me. Number 2: Oh, good idea, Boss! Number 3: It was like that when I got here.
—Nell Scovell, 1991
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A miracle drug is any drug that will do what the label says it will do.
—Eric Hodgins, 1964I have been ever of the opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1844History in its broadest aspect is a record of man’s migrations from one environment to another.
—Ellsworth Huntington, 1919When man wanted to make a machine that would walk, he created the wheel, which does not resemble a leg.
—Guillaume Apollinaire, 1917Revolution can never be forecast; it cannot be foretold; it comes of itself. Revolution is brewing and is bound to flare up.
—Vladimir Lenin, 1918Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth but not its twin.
—Barbara Kingsolver, 1990The future comes like an unwelcome guest.
—Edmund Gosse, 1873On the loftiest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own rump.
—Michel de Montaigne, 1580For what do we live but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?
—Jane Austen, 1813The country only has charms for those not obliged to stay there.
—Édouard Manet, c. 1860How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.
—Søren Kierkegaard, 1843An ape will be an ape, though clad in purple.
—Erasmus, 1511