Death keeps no calendar.
—George Herbert, 1640
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Communities do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1863Business is other people’s money.
—Delphine de Girardin, 1852It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
—Dolores Ibárruri, 1936Exile lacks the grandeur, the majesty, of expatriation.
—Bharati Mukherjee, 1999Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.
—G.C. Lichtenberg, c. 1780O flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified!
—William Shakespeare, c. 1596Of my friends, I am the only one I have left.
—Terence, 161 BCA broken friendship may be soldered but will never be sound.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732’Tis a portentous sign / When a man sweats and at the same time shivers.
—Plautus, c. 180 BCSociety as a whole must be converted into a gigantic school.
—Che Guevara, 1965Give us the child for eight years and it will be a Bolshevist forever.
—Vladimir Lenin, 1923The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
—Albert Einstein, 1936