The three little sentences that will get you through life. Number 1: Cover for me. Number 2: Oh, good idea, Boss! Number 3: It was like that when I got here.
—Nell Scovell, 1991
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All streams run to the sea, but the sea is not full.
—Book of Ecclesiastes, c. 250 BCNothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self; for what we wish, that we readily believe.
—Demosthenes, 349 BCSeize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.
—André Gide, 1897Man punishes the action, but God the intention.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732The more religious a country is, the more crimes are committed in it.
—Napoleon Bonaparte, 1817When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.
—Eugene V. Debs, 1918By the blessing of the upright the city is exalted, but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 350 BCIt seems to me that we all look at nature too much and live with her too little.
—Oscar Wilde, 1897I am sure of this: that if everybody was to drink their bottle a day, there would not be half the disorders in the world there are now.
—Jane Austen, c. 1798Let us make our own mistakes, but let us take comfort in the knowledge that they are our own mistakes.
—Tom Mboya, 1958Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny, they have only shifted it to another shoulder.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.
—Jean Genet, 1949