There’s folks ’ud hold a sieve under the pump and expect to carry away the water.
—George Eliot, 1859
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Corporations have neither bodies to be punished nor souls to be damned.
—Chinese proverbI have a terrible memory; I never forget a thing.
—Edith Konecky, 1976If you are truly serious about preparing your child for the future, don’t teach him to subtract—teach him to deduct.
—Fran Lebowitz, 1981The celestial machine is to be likened not to a divine organism but rather to a clockwork.
—Johannes Kepler, 1605I have seen the science I worshipped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.
—Charles Lindbergh, 1948All the world is topsy-turvy, and it has been topsy-turvy ever since the plague.
—Jack London, 1912Nothing is more narrow-minded than chauvinism or racial hatred. To me all men are equal; there are flatheads everywhere and I despise them all equally.
—Karl Kraus, 1909Your mind’s got to eat, too.
—Dambudzo Marechera, 1978Is it only the mouth and belly which are injured by hunger and thirst? Men’s minds are also injured by them.
—Mencius, 300 BC’Tis a portentous sign / When a man sweats and at the same time shivers.
—Plautus, c. 180 BCI won’t be happy till I’m as famous as God.
—Madonna, c. 1985A maid that laughs is half taken.
—John Ray, 1670