When one has a famishing thirst for happiness, one is apt to gulp down diversions wherever they are offered.
—Alice Hegan Rice, 1917
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Honest commerce is the great civilizer. We exchange ideas when we exchange fabrics.
—Robert G. Ingersoll, 1882God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees and flowers and clouds and stars.
—Martin LutherThe Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education. School is where you go between when your parents can’t take you and industry can’t take you.
—John Updike, 1963Happiness is a warm puppy.
—Charles Schulz, 1971Nature is the art of God.
—Thomas Browne, 1635Big head, little wit.
—French proverbThis is not a clash between civilizations. It is a clash about civilization.
—Tony Blair, 2006Inventor, n. A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers, and springs and believes it civilization.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1911A self-made man is one who believes in luck and sends his son to Oxford.
—Christina Stead, 1938Let the people think they govern, and they will be governed.
—William Penn, 1693The gods play games with men as balls.
—Plautus, c. 200 BCJesters do oft prove prophets.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1605