My face looks like a wedding cake left out in the rain.
—W.H. Auden, c. 1967
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We must confess that at present the rich predominate, but the future will be for the virtuous and ingenious.
—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688The more corrupt the state, the more numerous its laws.
—Tacitus, c. 110He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1833What one man can invent another can discover.
—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1905Commerce tends to wear off those prejudices which maintain distinction and animosity between nations.
—William Robertson, 1769Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
—Joseph Stalin, 1934A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.
—Charles Baudelaire, 1852Whole nations have melted away like balls of snow before the sun.
—Dragging Canoe, 1775Conservation is not merely a thing to be enshrined in outdoor museums, but a way of living on land.
—Aldo Leopold, 1933If men are to wait for liberty till they become wise and good in slavery, they may indeed wait forever.
—Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1843Once suspicion is aroused, everything feeds it.
—Amelia Edith Barr, 1885It would seem that in history it’s never a tooth for a tooth, but a thousand, a hundred thousand for one.
—Sybille Bedford, 1963