Quotes

I live by good soup, and not on fine language.

—Molière, 1672

Fear has a smell, as love does.

—Margaret Atwood, 1972

When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.

—Ursula K. Le Guin, 1969

All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy.

—Al Smith, 1933

You 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 BC

Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god.

—Jean Rostand, 1939

Moderation in all things.

—Terence, 166 BC

Men are merriest when they are from home.

—William Shakespeare, 1599

Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.

—Ulysses S. Grant, 1877

Whenever there is excess, an ax remedies it.

—Sumerian proverb

Many need no other provocation to enmity than that they find themselves excelled.

—Samuel Johnson, 1751

To love a woman who scorns you is to lick honey from a thorn.

—Welsh proverb

Love is giving something you haven’t got to someone who doesn’t exist.

—Jacques Lacan

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