It costs a lot of money to be rich.
—Peter Boyle, 2002
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You furnish the pictures, and I’ll furnish the war.
—William Randolph Hearst, 1898Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height.
—E.M. Forster, 1910What hath night to do with sleep?
—John Milton, 1637Water is the first principle of everything.
—Thales of Miletus, c. 600 BCEvery man is worth just so much as the things he busies himself with.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 175What experience and history teach is this—that nations and governments have never learned anything from history or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it.
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, 1830The power which the sea requires in the sailor makes a man of him very fast, and the change of shores and population clears his head of much nonsense of his wigwam.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1870No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
—Abraham LincolnMan, when perfected, is the best of animals, but when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all.
—Aristotle, c. 350 BCQuarreling must lead to disorder, and disorder exhaustion.
—Xunzi, c. 250 BCIt is not right for a ruler who has the nation in his charge, a man with so much on his mind, to sleep all night.
—Homer, c. 750 BCI am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
—Thomas Hobbes, 1679