It costs a lot to make a person look this cheap.
—Dolly Parton, 1994
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War is sweet to those who don’t know it.
—Erasmus, 1508From hell’s heart I stab at thee; for hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee.
—Herman Melville, 1851Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny, they have only shifted it to another shoulder.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903He may be a patriot for Austria, but the question is whether he is a patriot for me.
—Emperor Francis Joseph, c. 1850Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1871A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can’t think of anything else to do.
—W.H. Auden, 1946To love a woman who scorns you is to lick honey from a thorn.
—Welsh proverbThe features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit has made permanent.
—Marcel Proust, 1919You must not grow used to making money out of everything. One sees more people ruined than one has seen preserved by shameful gains.
—Sophocles, c. 442 BCYou are dust, and to dust you shall return.
—Book of Genesis, c. 800 BCIn the society of men, the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not. Our social realities are so ugly if seen in the light of exiled truth, and beauty is almost no longer possible if it is not a lie.
—R.D. Laing, 1967Gambling is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief.
—George Washington, 1783