Fortune resists half-hearted prayers.
—Ovid, 8
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’Tis the sport to have the engineer / Hoist with his own petard.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1600Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands, and goes to work.
—Carl Sandburg, 1959It is shameful and inhuman to treat men like chattels to make money by, or to regard them merely as so much muscle or physical power.
—Pope Leo XIII, 1891By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.
—Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1955Dreams have always been my friend, full of information, full of warnings.
—Doris Lessing, 1994Don’t ever wear artistic jewelry; it wrecks a woman’s reputation.
—Colette, 1944The only equals are those who are equally rich.
—Burundian proverbThe money we have is the means to liberty; that which we pursue is the means to slavery.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, c. 1770Death from the bubonic plague is rated, with crucifixion, among the nastiest human experiences of all.
—Guy R. Williams, 1975To make laws that man cannot and will not obey serves to bring all law into contempt.
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1860Till taught by pain, / Men really know not what good water’s worth.
—Lord Byron, 1819It’s easy to be independent when you’ve got money. But to be independent when you haven’t got a thing—that’s the Lord’s test.
—Mahalia Jackson, 1966