God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees and flowers and clouds and stars.
—Martin Luther
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A monument is money wasted. My memory will live on if my life has deserved it.
—Pliny the Younger, c. 109I wants to make your flesh creep.
—Charles Dickens, 1837He who laugheth too much, hath the nature of a fool; he that laugheth not at all, hath the nature of an old cat.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732Enemies are so stimulating.
—Katharine Hepburn, 1969The poor man is ruined as soon as he begins to ape the rich.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BCThere’s plenty of fire in the coldest flint!
—Rachel Field, 1939Take back your golden fiddles, and we’ll beat to open sea.
—Rudyard Kipling, 1892How sad a sight is human happiness to those whose thoughts can pierce beyond an hour!
—Edward Young, 1741Friends are fictions founded on some single momentary experience.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1864Doing research on the web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly.
—Roger Ebert, 1998Trade is a social act.
—John Stuart Mill, 1859The vice presidency isn’t worth a pitcher of warm piss.
—John Nance Garner, c. 1967