Quotes

Too many people have decided to do without generosity in order to practice charity.

—Albert Camus, 1956

Hate must make a man productive. Otherwise one might as well love.

—Karl Kraus, 1912

One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.

—Oscar Wilde, 1895

Home is the girl’s prison and the woman’s workhouse.

—George Bernard Shaw, 1903

Good men must not obey the laws too well.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844

If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.

—Dorothy Parker

Never make a defense or apology before you be accused.

—Charles I, 1636

Modern life is often a mechanical oppression, and liquor is the only mechanical relief.

—Ernest Hemingway, 1935

Dreams have always been my friend, full of information, full of warnings.

—Doris Lessing, 1994

It would be impossible to live for a year without disaster unless one practiced character-reading.

—Virginia Woolf, 1924

Better a thousand enemies outside the house than one inside.

—Arabic proverb

Worry over what has not occurred is a serious malady.

—Solomon ibn Gabirol, 1050

Thanks to the interstate highway system, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything.

—Charles Kuralt, c. 1980

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