A hick town is one where there is no place to go where you shouldn’t go.
—Alexander Woollcott, c. 1935
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Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.
—Herbert Hoover, 1936God never sent a messenger save with the language of his folk, that he might make the message clear for them.
—The Qur’an, c. 620Television has made dictatorship impossible, but democracy unbearable.
—Shimon Peres, 1995Perish the universe, provided I have my revenge.
—Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac, 1654There is a kind of revolution of so general a character that it changes the mental tastes as well as the fortunes of the world.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1665Cities are the abyss of the human species.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762The doctor occupies a seat in the front row of the stalls of the human drama, and is constantly watching and even intervening in the tragedies, comedies, and tragicomedies which form the raw material of the literary art.
—W. Russell Brain, 1952Business? Why, it’s very simple; business is other people’s money.
—Alexandre Dumas, 1857He 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, 1732I am not Athenian or Greek but a citizen of the world.
—Socrates, c. 420 BCWhat touches all shall be approved by all.
—Edward I, 1295The life of the dead consists in the recollection cherished of them by the living.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 43 BC