The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.
—Agnes Repplier, 1929
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You are dust, and to dust you shall return.
—Book of Genesis, c. 800 BCAccording to the law of custom, and perhaps of reason, foreign travel completes the education of an English gentleman.
—Edward Gibbon, c. 1794One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
—E.B. White, 1958Oligopoly, plutocracy, kleptocracy: All things that are good for a shareholder.
—James J. Cramer, 2006He who would be happy should stay at home.
—Greek proverbAfter all, crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor.
—John Huston, 1950All those who suffer in the world do so because of their desire for their own happiness.
—Shantideva, c. 750These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
—Claude Monet, 1908One who is frivolous all day will never establish a household.
—Ptahhotep, c. 2400 BCAnyone who in discussion quotes authority uses his memory rather than his intellect.
—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1500Traveling is like gambling: it is ever connected with winning and losing, and generally where least expected we receive more or less than we hoped for.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1797In settling an island, the first building erected by a Spaniard will be a church, by a Frenchman a fort, by a Dutchman a warehouse, and by an Englishman an alehouse.
—Francis Grose, 1787