O flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified!
—William Shakespeare, c. 1596
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It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
—Dolores Ibárruri, 1936Do not ask me to be kind; just ask me to act as though I were.
—Jules Renard, 1898My interest is in the future, because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
—Charles F. Kettering, 1946If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.
—Dorothy ParkerEvery man has a lurking wish to appear considerable in his native place.
—Samuel Johnson, 1771One should always have one’s boots on and be ready to leave.
—Michel de Montaigne, 1580The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways—I to die, and you to live. Which is better, only the god knows.
—Socrates, 399 BCThe real question is not whether machines think but whether men do.
—B.F. Skinner, 1969It was lonesome, the leaving.
—Wetatonmi, c. 1877Great inventors and discoverers seem to have made their discoveries and inventions, as it were, by the way, in the course of their everyday life.
—Elizabeth Charles, 1862Never make a defense or apology before you be accused.
—Charles I, 1636The hatred of relatives is the bitterest.
—Tacitus, 117