It costs a lot of money to be rich.
—Peter Boyle, 2002
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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, 1987We need strength, we need energy, we need quickness, and we need brain in this country to turn it around.
—Donald Trump, 2015It is better to live unknown to the law.
—Irish proverbThe severity of a teacher is better than the love of a father.
—Saadi, 1258Travelers, poets, and liars are three words all of one significance.
—Richard Brathwaite, 1631My father! The sun is my father, and the earth is my mother, and on her bosom I will recline.
—Tecumseh, 1810I said of laughter, “It is mad,” and of pleasure, “What use is it?”
—Book of Ecclesiastes, 225 BCThe thirsty earth soaks up the rain, / And drinks, and gapes for drink again.
—Abraham Cowley, 1656God 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, 1964All the daughters of music shall be brought low.
—Ecclesiastes, c. 400 BCFamous, adj. Conspicuously miserable.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906My 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