Quotes

Everybody says it; and what everybody says must be true.

—James Fenimore Cooper, 1844

There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.

—Michel de Montaigne, 1580

Peace is a natural effect of trade.

—Montesquieu, 1748

Refrigerators and television sets, or even rockets sent to the moon, do not change man into God.

—Czesław Miłosz, 1960

The law’s made to take care o’ raskills.

—George Eliot, 1860

Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.

—Plautus, c. 200 BC

For most of us, nighttime dreaming brings us closer to our identities and our power than any activity in the waking world.

—Walter Mosley, 2000

I am dying with the help of too many physicians.

—Alexander the Great, c. 323 BC

The belly is the teacher of the arts and bestower of invention.

—Persius, c. 55

Our allotted time is the passing of a shadow.

—Book of Wisdom, c. 100 BC

We never are definitely right; we can only be sure we are wrong.

—Richard P. Feynman, 1965

A world is sooner destroyed than made.

—Thomas Burnet, 1684

Alone, alone, all, all alone, / Alone on a wide, wide sea!

—Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1798

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