The righteous know the needs of their animals, but the mercy of the wicked is cruel.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 500 BC
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Seamen are the nearest to death and the furthest from God.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
—Cormac McCarthy, 2005Happiness is a warm puppy.
—Charles Schulz, 1971To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.
—Jean Genet, 1949Once a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
—Tacitus, c. 100Everybody says it; and what everybody says must be true.
—James Fenimore Cooper, 1844In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.
—Herodotus, 440 BCNo man will take counsel, but every man will take money: therefore money is better than counsel.
—Jonathan Swift, 1702Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1755The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
—H.L. Mencken, 1921Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.
—William Morris, 1882The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.
—Joseph Conrad, 1899