A self-made man is one who believes in luck and sends his son to Oxford.
—Christina Stead, 1938
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Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.
—Hesiod, c. 700 BCIf parents would only realize how they bore their children!
—George Bernard Shaw, c. 1910Courage and grace is a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring.
—Marlene Dietrich, 1962The young leading the young is like the blind leading the blind.
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 1747The period is not very remote when the benefits of a liberal and free commerce will, pretty generally, succeed to the devastations and horrors of war.
—George Washington, 1786The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
—L.P. Hartley, 1953Politics is the art of the possible.
—Otto von Bismarck, 1867Men argue, nature acts.
—Voltaire, 1764The best moment of love is when the lover leaves in the taxi.
—Michel Foucault, c. 1982It is wretched business to be digging a well just as you’re dying of thirst.
—Plautus, c. 193 BCA sick child is always the mother’s property; her own feelings generally make it so.
—Jane Austen, 1816Can you draw sweet water from a foul well?
—Brooks Atkinson, 1940