From the cradle to the coffin, underwear comes first.
—Bertolt Brecht, 1928
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There is no profit without another’s loss.
—Roman proverbMost men employ the first years of their life in making the last miserable.
—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion to vice.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, c. 45 BCThe more sifted, the finer the flour; the more often repeated, the rougher the gossip.
—Korean proverbMen are what their mothers made them.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1860Nature never breaks her own laws.
—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1500The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family.
—Paul Johnson, 1989The United States has virtually set up an empire on impounded and redistributed water.
—Charles P. Berkey, 1946In 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, 1787The severity of a teacher is better than the love of a father.
—Saadi, 1258Avoid the talk of men. For talk is mischievous, light, and easily raised, but hard to bear and difficult to be rid of. Talk never wholly dies away when many people voice her: even talk is in some ways divine.
—Hesiod, c. 700 BCCommunities do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1863