Imitate the ass in his love to his master.
—St. John Chrysostom, c. 388
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Friends are fictions founded on some single momentary experience.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1864The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family.
—Paul Johnson, 1989It was lonesome, the leaving.
—Wetatonmi, c. 1877There are times when reality becomes too complex for oral communication. But legend gives it a form by which it pervades the whole world.
—Jean-Luc Godard, 1965I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.
—Ray Bradbury, 1992Revolutions are always verbose.
—Leon Trotsky, 1933We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea—whether it is to sail or to watch it—we are going back whence we came.
—John F. Kennedy, 1962A machine is a slave that neither brings nor bears degradation.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1844Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1735Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1886Who sleepeth with dogs shall rise with fleas.
—John Florio, 1578A shopkeeper will never get the more custom by beating his customers; and what is true of a shopkeeper is true of a shopkeeping nation.
—Josiah Tucker, 1766