It is a certain sign of a wise government and proceeding, when it can hold men’s hearts by hopes, when it cannot by satisfaction.
—Francis Bacon, 1625
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Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.
—Plautus, c. 200 BCIron may break gold, but water remains whole.
—Ge Hong, c. 300Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.
—Aphra Behn, 1677Little folks become their little fate.
—Horace, c. 20 BCWithout music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
—Frank Zappa, 1989Speak without regard for the consequences, and it is too late for silence when disaster strikes.
—Huan Kuan, 81 BCOne of the important requirements for learning how to cook is that you also learn how to eat.
—Julia Child, 2001We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.
—Aesop, c. 600 BCA family’s photograph album is generally about the extended family—and, often, is all that remains of it.
—Susan Sontag, 1977Don’t talk to me about naval tradition. It’s nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash.
—Winston Churchill, 1939The fear of war is worse than war itself.
—Seneca, c. 50Alongside all swindlers the state now stands there as swindler-in-chief.
—Jacob Burckhardt, c. 1875