If they prescribe a lot of remedies for some sickness or other, it means that the sickness is incurable.
—Anton Chekhov, 1904
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Business is other people’s money.
—Delphine de Girardin, 1852To eat is to appropriate by destruction.
—Jean-Paul Sartre, 1943Men are able to assist fortune but not to thwart her. They can weave her designs, but they cannot destroy them.
—Niccolò Machiavelli, 1531Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it, and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, c. 1790Memory is like the moon, which hath its new, its full, and its wane.
—Margaret Cavendish, 1655Fire destroys that which feeds it.
—Simone Weil, c. 1940Someone will remember us
I say
even in another time.
Night affords the most convenient shade for works of darkness.
—John Taylor, 1750There is no greater disaster than not to know contentment.
—Laozi, c. 550 BCEvery gift has a personality—that of its giver.
—Nuruddin Farah, 1992All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.
—Edmund Burke, 1796Slang is as old as speech and the congregating together of people in cities. It is the result of crowding and excitement and artificial life.
—John Camden Hotten, 1859