It is far, far better and much safer to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.
—John Kenneth Galbraith, 1958
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Best is water.
—Pindar, 476 BCA sick child is always the mother’s property; her own feelings generally make it so.
—Jane Austen, 1816It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard for their own interest.
—Adam Smith, 1776If I had the use of my body I would throw it out of the window.
—Samuel Beckett, 1951Do not ask me to be kind; just ask me to act as though I were.
—Jules Renard, 1898Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
—Gore Vidal, 1981Other nations use “force”; we Britons alone use “might.”
—Evelyn Waugh, 1938The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
—Albert Einstein, 1936Why has the government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.
—Alexander Hamilton, 1787In settling an island, the first building erected by a Spaniard will be a church, by a Frenchman a fort, by a Dutchman a warehouse, and by an Englishman an alehouse.
—Francis Grose, 1787Revolutions are not about trifles, but they are produced by trifles.
—Aristotle, c. 350 BCI count myself in nothing else so happy / As in a soul remembering my good friends.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1595