Inventions that are not made, like babies that are not born, are rarely missed.
—John Kenneth Galbraith, 1958
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Don’t lose your mind unless you have paid for it.
—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957Time is a veil interposed between God and ourselves, as our eyelid is between our eye and the light.
—François-René de Chateaubriand, c. 1820I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground.
—Edna St. Vincent Millay, 1928Where it is a duty to worship the sun, it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.
—John Morley, 1872At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
—W. Somerset Maugham, 1896A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
—Jane Austen, 1814Men were born to lie, and women to believe them.
—John Gay, 1728Such then is the human state, that to wish greatness for one’s country is to wish harm to one’s neighbors.
—Voltaire, 1764No human life, not even the life of a hermit, is possible without a world which directly or indirectly testifies to the presence of other human beings.
—Hannah Arendt, 1958They say that gifts persuade even the gods.
—Euripides, 431 BCEveryone complains about his memory, and no one complains about his judgment.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1666The world is dying of machinery; that is the great disease, that is the plague that will sweep away and destroy civilization; man will have to rise against it sooner or later.
—George Moore, 1888