Writing cannot express words fully; words cannot express thoughts fully.
—The Book of Changes, c. 350 BC
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Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear.
—William Shakespeare, 1592Many are the wonders of the world, and none so wonderful as man.
—Sophocles, c. 441 BCAll people have the common desire to be elevated in honor, but all people have something still more elevated in themselves without knowing it.
—Mencius, c. 330 BCTelevision is democracy at its ugliest.
—Paddy Chayefsky, 1976When nature is overriden, she takes her revenge.
—Marya Mannes, 1958Profit is profit even in Mecca.
—Nigerian proverbInventions that are not made, like babies that are not born, are rarely missed.
—John Kenneth Galbraith, 1958The drunken man is a living corpse.
—St. John Chrysostom, c. 390Soldiers in peace are like chimneys in summer.
—William Cecil, Lord Burghley, c. 1555Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.
—Agnes Repplier, 1916Money is a language for translating the work of the farmer into the work of the barber, doctor, engineer, or plumber.
—Marshall McLuhan, 1964What delight can there be, and not rather displeasure, in hearing the barking and howling of dogs? Or what greater pleasure is there to be felt when a dog followeth a hare than when a dog followeth a dog?
—Thomas More, 1516