The character which results from wealth is that of a prosperous fool.
—Aristotle, c. 322 BC
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Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.
—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688Whoever expects to walk peacefully in the world must be money’s guest.
—Norman O. Brown, 1959Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs only to the people who prepare for it today.
—Malcolm X, 1964Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1938There is no method by which men can be both free and equal.
—Walter Bagehot, 1863It is very foolish to attack one’s enemy openly if one can injure him in secret.
—Giambattista Giraldi, 1543If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper that did his job well.
—Martin Luther King Jr., 1954More pernicious nonsense was never devised by man than treaties of commerce.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1880Some men never recover from education.
—Oliver St. John Gogarty, 1954The newspaper is the natural enemy of the book, as the whore is of the decent woman.
—Edmond and Jules de Goncourt, 1858I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
—Anaïs Nin, 1950There is a vital force in rumor. Though crushed to earth, to all intents and purposes buried, it can rise again without apparent effort.
—Eleanor Robson Belmont, 1957