No nation was ever ruined by trade.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1774
Archive
Quotes
Money, not morality, is the principle of commercial nations.
—Thomas JeffersonThere will always be a lost dog somewhere that will prevent me from being happy.
—Jean Anouilh, 1934The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative on the day after the revolution.
—Hannah Arendt, 1970Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be.
—William Hazlitt, 1819As the saying goes, an old woman is always uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb.
—Chinua Achebe, 1958Sport is the bloom and glow of a perfect health.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1838No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.
—Samuel Johnson, 1776Oh, democracy! Whither are you leading us?
—Aristophanes, 414 BCTravel is like adultery: one is always tempted to be unfaithful to one’s own country. To have imagination is inevitably to be dissatisfied with where you live.
—Anatole Broyard, 1989To call a fashion wearable is the kiss of death. No new fashion worth its salt is ever wearable.
—Eugenia Sheppard, 1960Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls, and sloth, or the Gout will seize you.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1734Words pay no debts.
—William Shakespeare, 1601