A college degree is a social certificate, not a proof of competence.
—Elbert Hubbard, 1911
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The U.S. presidency is a Tudor monarchy plus telephones.
—Anthony Burgess, 1972Uprootedness is by far the most dangerous malady to which human societies are exposed, for it is a self-propagating one.
—Simone Weil, 1943It is better to live unknown to the law.
—Irish proverbReputation, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others.
—Douglas Jerrold, 1840You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
—Joseph Conrad, 1900’Tis the sport to have the engineer / Hoist with his own petard.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1600And, after all, what is a lie? ’Tis but the truth in masquerade.
—Lord Byron, 1822There’s plenty of fire in the coldest flint!
—Rachel Field, 1939Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there.
—Susanne K. Langer, 1942If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.
—Francis Bacon, 1625The universe is an object of thought at least as much as it is a means of satisfying needs.
—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1962Time is a veil interposed between God and ourselves, as our eyelid is between our eye and the light.
—François-René de Chateaubriand, c. 1820