Hoping for new friendship from old enemies is / Like expecting to find a rose in a furnace.
—Muhammad Baqir Najm-i Sani, 1612
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Machines do not run in order to enable men to live, but we resign ourselves to feeding men in order that they may serve the machines.
—Simone Weil, 1934Lord, I do not ask that thou shouldst give me wealth; only show me where it is, and I will attend to the rest.
—Kate Douglas Wiggin, 1898Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.
—G.C. Lichtenberg, c. 1780Better a thousand enemies outside the house than one inside.
—Arabic proverbLo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
—Ecclesiastes, c. 250 BCMy interest is in the future, because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
—Charles F. Kettering, 1946An ape will be an ape, though clad in purple.
—Erasmus, 1511Spit not in the well; you may have to drink its water.
—French proverbFor what do we live but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?
—Jane Austen, 1813Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It’s what separates us from the animals—except the weasel.
—The Simpsons, 1993I looked and there was a pale green horse! Its rider’s name was Death, and Hades followed with him.
—Book of Revelations, c. 90The more religious a country is, the more crimes are committed in it.
—Napoleon Bonaparte, 1817