All moanday, tearsday, wailsday, thumpsday, frightday, shatterday till the fear of the Law.
—James Joyce, 1939
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Sex: in America, an obsession; in other parts of the world, a fact.
—Marlene Dietrich, 1962If parents would only realize how they bore their children!
—George Bernard Shaw, c. 1910Under the wide and starry sky, / Dig the grave and let me lie.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1887The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended—and not to take a hint when a hint isn’t intended.
—Robert Frost, 1939All the married heiresses I have known have shipwrecked.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1880For what do we live but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?
—Jane Austen, 1813The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
—Laurence Sterne, 1760What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.
—Joseph Addison, 1711The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1908Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.
—W. Somerset Maugham, 1896It costs a lot of money to be rich.
—Peter Boyle, 2002There 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, 1897