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It costs a lot of money to be rich.

—Peter Boyle, 2002

Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and in this hasn’t changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.

—John Berger, 1987

We need strength, we need energy, we need quickness, and we need brain in this country to turn it around.

—Donald Trump, 2015

It is better to live unknown to the law.

—Irish proverb

The severity of a teacher is better than the love of a father.

—Saadi, 1258

Travelers, poets, and liars are three words all of one significance.

—Richard Brathwaite, 1631

My father! The sun is my father, and the earth is my mother, and on her bosom I will recline.

—Tecumseh, 1810

I said of laughter, “It is mad,” and of pleasure, “What use is it?”

—Book of Ecclesiastes, 225 BC

The thirsty earth soaks up the rain, / And drinks, and gapes for drink again.

—Abraham Cowley, 1656

God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style. He just goes on trying other things.

—Pablo Picasso, 1964

All the daughters of music shall be brought low.

—Ecclesiastes, c. 400 BC

Famous, adj. Conspicuously miserable.

—Ambrose Bierce, 1906

My stern chase after time is, to borrow a simile from Tom Paine, like the race of a man with a wooden leg after a horse.

—John Quincy Adams, 1844