He that serves God for money will serve the Devil for better wages.
—Roger L’Estrange, 1692
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The men of today are born to criticize; of Achilles they see only the heel.
—Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, 1880The nature of God is a circle, of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere.
—Empedocles, c. 450 BCDespotism achieves great things illegally; democracy doesn’t even take the trouble to achieve small things legally.
—Honoré de Balzac, 1831All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it.
—Henry David Thoreau, 1849Don’t hit a man at all if you can avoid it, but if you have to hit him, knock him out.
—Theodore Roosevelt, 1916Whatever the apparent cause of any riots may be, the real one is always want of happiness.
—Thomas Paine, 1792The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body.
—Anaïs Nin, 1935Is all our fire of shipwreck wood?
—Robert Browning, 1862We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do.
—Barbara Ward, 1972No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.
—Cyril Connolly, 1944Plagues are as certain as death and taxes.
—Richard Krause, 1982Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain there would be no life.
—John Updike, 1989