Is it only the mouth and belly which are injured by hunger and thirst? Men’s minds are also injured by them.
—Mencius, 300 BC
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A shopkeeper will never get the more custom by beating his customers; and what is true of a shopkeeper is true of a shopkeeping nation.
—Josiah Tucker, 1766Pictures made in childhood are painted in bright hues.
—Kate Douglas Wiggin, 1886According to the law of custom, and perhaps of reason, foreign travel completes the education of an English gentleman.
—Edward Gibbon, c. 1794The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt.
—Leviticus, c. 600 BCMemory is necessary for all operations of reasoning.
—Blaise Pascal, c. 1658If we pretend to respect the artist at all, we must allow him his freedom of choice, in the face, in particular cases, of innumerable presumptions that the choice will not fructify. Art derives a considerable part of its beneficial exercise from flying in the face of presumptions.
—Henry James, 1884I shall embrace my rival—until I suffocate him.
—Jean Racine, 1669Words pay no debts.
—William Shakespeare, 1601A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
—Jane Austen, 1814Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1755Think rich. Look poor.
—Andy Warhol, 1975Even a paranoid can have enemies.
—Henry Kissinger, 1977