Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.
—Herbert Hoover, 1936
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To be turned from one’s course by men’s opinions, by blame, and by misrepresentation shows a man unfit to hold office.
—Quintus Fabius Maximus, c. 203 BCWhat hath night to do with sleep?
—John Milton, 1637Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.
—H.L. Mencken, 1919All streams run to the sea, but the sea is not full.
—Book of Ecclesiastes, c. 250 BCTo live outside the law, you must be honest.
—Bob Dylan, 1966Best is water.
—Pindar, 476 BCI do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
—Galileo Galilei, 1615Many need no other provocation to enmity than that they find themselves excelled.
—Samuel Johnson, 1751Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny, they have only shifted it to another shoulder.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903Business? Why, it’s very simple; business is other people’s money.
—Alexandre Dumas, 1857In dealing with the dead, if we treat them as if they were entirely dead, that would show a want of affection and should not be done; or, if we treat them as if they were entirely alive, that would show a want of wisdom and should not be done.
—Confucius, c. 500 BCOne machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
—Elbert Hubbard, 1911