How sweet it is to have people point and say, “There he is.”
—Persius, c. 60
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People react to fear, not love—they don’t teach that in Sunday school, but it’s true.
—Richard Nixon, 1975What timid man does not avoid contact with the sick, fearing lest he contract a disease so near?
—Ovid, c. 10Health in all lands is among the indispensable guarantees of human progress.
—Helen Keller, 1936Almsgiving tends to perpetuate poverty; aid does away with it once and for all.
—Eva Perón, 1949For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?
—Jane Austen, 1813It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.
—Friedrich Schiller, 1781The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led either to sheer irrelevancy, the famous knowing of more and more about less and less, or to the development of a pseudo-scholarship which actually destroys its object.
—Hannah Arendt, 1972Brains are the only things worth having in this world.
—L. Frank Baum, 1899Colonialism has meant selling our ore and being left with the holes.
—Samora Moisés Machel, c. 1976Is all our fire of shipwreck wood?
—Robert Browning, 1862There is no small pleasure in sweet water.
—Ovid, c. 10There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink.
—Booth Tarkington, 1914