Despotism subjects a nation to one tyrant—democracy to many.
—Marguerite Gardiner, 1839
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There is no greater sorrow than to recall a happy time in the midst of wretchedness.
—Dante Alighieri, c. 1321One form of loneliness is to have a memory and no one to share it with.
—Phyllis Rose, 1991A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast.
—The Bible“I think, therefore I am” is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.
—Milan Kundera, 1990For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.
—Richard Feynman, 1986Alcohol is the monarch of liquids.
—Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, 1825Toil is man’s allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that’s more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.
—Herman Melville, 1849Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1839Civilization, a much-abused word, stands for a high matter quite apart from telephones and electric lights.
—Edith Hamilton, 1930There are two times in a man’s life when he should not speculate: when he can’t afford it, and when he can.
—Mark Twain, 1897I never practice, I always play.
—Wanda Landowska, 1953The sea serves the pirate as well as the trader.
—Prudentius, c. 405