It is more blessed to give than to receive.
—Acts of the Apostles, c. 80
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When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.
—Winston Churchill, 1945As natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection.
—Charles Darwin, 1859A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
—Jane Austen, 1814Oligopoly, plutocracy, kleptocracy: All things that are good for a shareholder.
—James J. Cramer, 2006Night is torment. That is why people go to sleep. To avoid clear sight and torment.
—Dorothy M. Richardson, 1923Whole nations have melted away like balls of snow before the sun.
—Dragging Canoe, 1775If I played in New York, they’d name a candy bar after me.
—Reggie Jackson, 1976To teach is to learn twice over.
—Joseph Joubert, c. 1805Hoping for new friendship from old enemies is / Like expecting to find a rose in a furnace.
—Muhammad Baqir Najm-i Sani, 1612It is hell to belong to a suppressed minority.
—Claude McKay, 1937Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
—Zora Neale Hurston, 1942The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.
—Marianne Moore, 1935