Charity is murder and you know it.
—Dorothy Parker, 1956
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The root of the kingdom is in the State. The root of the State is in the family. The root of the family is in the person of its Head.
—Mencius, c. 270 BCI must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
—Anaïs Nin, 1950Power is so apt to be insolent, and Liberty to be saucy, that they are very seldom upon good terms.
—George Savile, c. 1690Disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body.
—Thomas Mann, 1924The money market is to a commercial nation what the heart is to man.
—William Pitt, 1805Let him who desires peace prepare for war.
—Vegetius, c. 385Home is the girl’s prison and the woman’s workhouse.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified heads, fills citified ears—as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk happy.
—Frank Lloyd Wright, 1958I have often been convinced that a democracy is incapable of empire.
—Thucydides, c. 404 BCThe happy ending is our national belief.
—Mary McCarthy, 1947All the daughters of music shall be brought low.
—Ecclesiastes, c. 400 BCI do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
—Galileo Galilei, 1615