Commerce has made all winds her ministers.
—John Sterling, 1843
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If you find excrement somewhere in the village, the chief was the one who put it there.
—Congolese proverbAt night comes counsel to the wise.
—Menander, c. 300 BCmy mind is
a big hunk of irrevocable nothing
If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay in solid cash—the tribute which philistinism owes to culture, the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let us thank heaven for hypocrisy.
—Aldous Huxley, 1926Speak and speed; the close mouth catches no flies.
—Benjamin Franklin, c. 1732Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.
—D.H. Lawrence, 1908I proclaim night more truthful than the day.
—Léopold Sédar Senghor, 1956The most may err as grossly as the few.
—John Dryden, 1681Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them; it is destiny which makes them prudent.
—Voltaire, 1764Those from whom we were born have long since departed, and those with whom we grew up exist only in memory. We, too, through the approach of death, become, as it were, trees growing on the sandy bank of a river.
—Bhartrihari, c. 400I have a terrible memory; I never forget a thing.
—Edith Konecky, 1976The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified heads, fills citified ears—as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk happy.
—Frank Lloyd Wright, 1958