One who is frivolous all day will never establish a household.
—Ptahhotep, c. 2400 BC
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The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
—L.P. Hartley, 1953The United States has virtually set up an empire on impounded and redistributed water.
—Charles P. Berkey, 1946Each night’s new terror drives away the terror of the night before.
—Sophocles, c. 450 BCThe more men are massed together, the more corrupt they become. Disease and vice are the sure results of overcrowded cities.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762I have loved war too well.
—Louis XIV, 1715Money, not morality, is the principle of commercial nations.
—Thomas JeffersonIn the past, men created witches; now they create mental patients.
—Thomas Szasz, 1970This is Year Zero.
—Pol Pot, 1975One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
—E.B. White, 1958I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes.
—Maxine Hong Kingston, 1976Your body is the church where nature asks to be reverenced.
—Marquis de Sade, 1797Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.
—Alvin Toffler, 1970