I live by good soup, and not on fine language.
—Molière, 1672
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Far water cannot quench near fire.
—Japanese proverbWe must not always talk in the marketplace of what happens to us in the forest.
—Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1850Fate leads the willing and drags along those who hang back.
—Cleanthes, c. 250 BCHave you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a centaur, a leopard, a wolf, or a bull?
—Aristophanes, 423 BCThe screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified heads, fills citified ears—as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk happy.
—Frank Lloyd Wright, 1958I’m president of the United States, and I’m not going to eat any more broccoli!
—George H. W. Bush, 1990I will never again command an army in America if we must carry along paid spies. I will banish myself to some foreign country first.
—William Tecumseh Sherman, 1863To desire immortality for the individual is really the same as wanting to perpetuate an error forever.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1819I love everyone now that I have gray hair.
—Polatkin, c. 1855I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute, where no Catholic prelate would tell the president (should he be a Catholic) how to act and no Protestant minister would tell his parishioners for whom to vote.
—John F. Kennedy, 1960The future comes like an unwelcome guest.
—Edmund Gosse, 1873Even though counting heads is not an ideal way to govern, at least it is better than breaking them.
—Learned Hand, 1932