If the people be the governors, who shall be governed?
—John Cotton, c. 1636
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Children and fools cannot lie.
—John Heywood, 1546Real friends offer both hard truths and soft landings.
—Anna Quindlen, 2012Men are what their mothers made them.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1860The poor man is ruined as soon as he begins to ape the rich.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BCIt is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
—The BibleThe fact is certain because it is impossible.
—Tertullian, c. 200Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1920Art lives from constraints and dies from freedom.
—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1480Without a decisive naval force, we can do nothing definitive, and with it, everything honorable and glorious.
—George Washington, 1781The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletariat to the level of bourgeois stupidity.
—Gustave Flaubert, 1871The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1870An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 1746