That which is evil is soon learned.
—John Ray, 1670
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Money is mourned with deeper sorrow than friends or kindred.
—Juvenal, 128Scandal begins where the police leave off.
—Karl Kraus, 1909There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1891Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 30 BCOpposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.
—George Eliot, 1857Drive out nature with a pitchfork, and she will always come back.
—Horace, c. 25 BCA shopkeeper will never get the more custom by beating his customers; and what is true of a shopkeeper is true of a shopkeeping nation.
—Josiah Tucker, 1766Language is the house of being. In its home human beings dwell. Those who think and those who create with words are the guardians of this home.
—Martin Heidegger, 1949Television is democracy at its ugliest.
—Paddy Chayefsky, 1976Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will—whatever we may think.
—Lawrence Durrell, 1957It is more blessed to give than to receive.
—Acts of the Apostles, c. 80The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative on the day after the revolution.
—Hannah Arendt, 1970