How can we bear misfortune most easily? If we see our enemies faring worse.
—Thales of Miletus, c. 585 BC
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Football causeth fighting, brawling, contention, quarrel picking, murder, homicide and great effusion of bloode, as daily experience teacheth.
—Philip Stubbes, 1583Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
—E.M. Forster, 1951Think rich. Look poor.
—Andy Warhol, 1975People can say what they like about the eternal verities, love and truth and so on, but nothing’s as eternal as the dishes.
—Margaret Mahy, 1985I’m president of the United States, and I’m not going to eat any more broccoli!
—George H. W. Bush, 1990Comedy, like sodomy, is an unnatural act.
—Marty Feldman, 1969Communities do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1863A machine is a slave that neither brings nor bears degradation.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1844Commerce has made all winds her ministers.
—John Sterling, 1843Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
—Samuel Johnson, 1750Every man has a lurking wish to appear considerable in his native place.
—Samuel Johnson, 1771I am not Athenian or Greek but a citizen of the world.
—Socrates, c. 420 BC