Happiness is no laughing matter.
—Richard Whately, 1843
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Money is mourned with deeper sorrow than friends or kindred.
—Juvenal, 128Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society.
—Mark Twain, 1873The spirit of revolution, the spirit of insurrection, is a spirit radically opposed to liberty.
—François Guizot, 1830A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence university education.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903History in its broadest aspect is a record of man’s migrations from one environment to another.
—Ellsworth Huntington, 1919Too often, where we need water we find guns.
—Ban Ki-moon, 2008Technology is so much fun, but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.
—Daniel Boorstin, 1978I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes.
—Maxine Hong Kingston, 1976The gods play games with men as balls.
—Plautus, c. 200 BCI am sure of this: that if everybody was to drink their bottle a day, there would not be half the disorders in the world there are now.
—Jane Austen, c. 1798’Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1595The root of the kingdom is in the State. The root of the State is in the family. The root of the family is in the person of its Head.
—Mencius, c. 270 BC