All those who suffer in the world do so because of their desire for their own happiness.
—Shantideva, c. 750
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In settling an island, the first building erected by a Spaniard will be a church, by a Frenchman a fort, by a Dutchman a warehouse, and by an Englishman an alehouse.
—Francis Grose, 1787If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.
—Dorothy ParkerBright youth passes as quickly as thought.
—Theognis, c. 550 BCI shall embrace my rival—until I suffocate him.
—Jean Racine, 1669Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.
—Kate Moss, 2009Exile lacks the grandeur, the majesty, of expatriation.
—Bharati Mukherjee, 1999I am a living symbol of the white man’s fear.
—Winnie Mandela, 1985Inventions that are not made, like babies that are not born, are rarely missed.
—John Kenneth Galbraith, 1958I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas and land on barbarous coasts.
—Herman Melville, 1853Happiness is a warm puppy.
—Charles Schulz, 1971Drinking with women is as unnatural as scolding with ’em.
—William Wycherley, 1675This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.
—Abraham Lincoln, 1861