Man punishes the action, but God the intention.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732
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Once suspicion is aroused, everything feeds it.
—Amelia Edith Barr, 1885Politics, n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906It’s easy to be independent when you’ve got money. But to be independent when you haven’t got a thing—that’s the Lord’s test.
—Mahalia Jackson, 1966Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.
—Socrates, c. 430 BCShame on the soul, to falter on the road of life while the body still perseveres.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170You must not grow used to making money out of everything. One sees more people ruined than one has seen preserved by shameful gains.
—Sophocles, c. 442 BCThe history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty, and death of public opinion.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1902Many, many steeples would have to be stacked one on top of another to reach from the bottom to the surface of the sea. It is down there that the sea folk live.
—Hans Christian Andersen, 1837Friends are fictions founded on some single momentary experience.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1864Revolutions are not about trifles, but they are produced by trifles.
—Aristotle, c. 350 BCMemory is the only
afterlife I can understand.
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.
—Oscar Wilde, 1895