I don’t believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
—Woody Allen, 1971
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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth but not its twin.
—Barbara Kingsolver, 1990If the heavens were all parchment, and the trees of the forest all pens, and every human being were a scribe, it would still be impossible to record all that I have learned from my teachers.
—Jochanan ben Zakkai, c. 75Business? Why, it’s very simple; business is other people’s money.
—Alexandre Dumas, 1857The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1870Why has the government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.
—Alexander Hamilton, 1787Dread attends the unknown.
—Nadine Gordimer, 1998By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.
—Confucius, c. 500 BCIt is not a case we are treating; it is a living, palpitating, alas, too often suffering fellow creature.
—John Brown, 1904Nobody, sir, dies willingly.
—Antiphanes, c. 370 BCYou can put wings on a pig, but you don’t make it an eagle.
—Bill Clinton, 1996Knowledge is an ancient error reflecting on its youth.
—Francis Picabia, 1949Do you suppose it possible to know democracy without knowing the people?
—Xenophon, c. 370 BC