God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees and flowers and clouds and stars.
—Martin Luther
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Much money makes a country poor, for it sets a dearer price on every thing.
—George Herbert, 1640The young leading the young is like the blind leading the blind.
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 1747The affairs of the world are no more than so much trickery, and a man who toils for money or honor or whatever else in deference to the wishes of others, rather than because his own desire or needs lead him to do so, will always be a fool.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1774The merchant always has fresh losses to expect, and the dread of base poverty forbids his rest.
—Decimus Magnus Ausonius, c. 390The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do.
—B.F. Skinner, 1969Today’s city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.
—Martin Oppenheimer, 1969Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891Art lives from constraints and dies from freedom.
—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1480A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
—Jane Austen, 1814Famous, adj. Conspicuously miserable.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
—Oscar Wilde, 1890That is happiness: to be dissolved into something complete and great.
—Willa Cather, 1918