Only the little people pay taxes.
—Leona Helmsley, 1989
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He who has nothing has no friends.
—Greek proverbThose who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
—John F. Kennedy, 1962Democracy cannot be static. Whatever is static is dead.
—Eleanor Roosevelt, 1942I work for a government I despise for ends I think criminal.
—John Maynard Keynes, 1917There is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship.
—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 1943Happiness (as the mathematicians might say) lies on a curve, and we approach it only by asymptote.
—Christopher Morley, 1919In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.
—Voltaire, 1764We wish away whole years, and travel through time as through a country filled with many wild and empty wastes, which we would fain hurry over, that we may arrive at those several little settlements or imaginary points of rest which are dispersed up and down in it.
—Joseph Addison, 1711The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God.
—William Blake, 1793I do not mean to call an elephant a vulgar animal, but if you think about him carefully, you will find that his nonvulgarity consists in such gentleness as is possible to elephantine nature—not in his insensitive hide, nor in his clumsy foot, but in the way he will lift his foot if a child lies in his way; and in his sensitive trunk, and still more sensitive mind, and capability of pique on points of honor.
—John Ruskin, 1860Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved.
—Iris Murdoch, 1974Man’s great mission is not to conquer nature by main force but to cooperate with her intelligently but lovingly for his own purposes.
—Lewis Mumford, 1962