Whoever has died is freed from sin.
—St. Paul, c. 50
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I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do.
—Roald Dahl, 1984A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
—Herman Melville, 1851Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands, and goes to work.
—Carl Sandburg, 1959I’ve been on more laps than a napkin.
—Mae WestI ride rough waters and shall sink with no one to save me.
—Virginia Woolf, 1931Laughter almost ever cometh of things most disproportioned to ourselves and nature. Laughter hath only a scornful tickling.
—Philip Sidney, 1582The envious die not once, but as often as the envied win applause.
—Baltasar Gracián, 1647Money is mourned with deeper sorrow than friends or kindred.
—Juvenal, 128The hatred of relatives is the bitterest.
—Tacitus, 117People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.
—Edmund Burke, 1790No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.
—Samuel Johnson, 1776A miracle drug is any drug that will do what the label says it will do.
—Eric Hodgins, 1964