Nothing but a permanent body can check the imprudence of democracy.
—Alexander Hamilton, 1787
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I am not Athenian or Greek but a citizen of the world.
—Socrates, c. 420 BCIt costs a lot of money to be rich.
—Peter Boyle, 2002The sea is mother-death, and she is a mighty female, the one who wins, the one who sucks us all up.
—Anne Sexton, 1971The more laws, the more lawbreakers.
—Tao Te Ching, c. 500 BCAs natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection.
—Charles Darwin, 1859Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you, because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
—Roald Dahl, 1990If the people be the governors, who shall be governed?
—John Cotton, c. 1636Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words?
—Marcel Marceau, 1958He who has nothing has no friends.
—Greek proverbIt is not my design to drink or sleep; my design is to make what haste I can to be gone.
—Oliver Cromwell, 1658Friendship is a plant that loves the sun—thrives ill under clouds.
—Bronson Alcott, 1872Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
—Mark Twain, 1893