Casting lots causes contentions to cease, and keeps the mighty apart.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 350 BC
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Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1776All moanday, tearsday, wailsday, thumpsday, frightday, shatterday till the fear of the Law.
—James Joyce, 1939Everybody says it; and what everybody says must be true.
—James Fenimore Cooper, 1844Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
—Denis Diderot, 1774Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.
—Charles Dickens, 1843By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.
—Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1955It’s the educated barbarian who is the worst: he knows what to destroy.
—Helen MacInnes, 1963Everyone complains about his memory, and no one complains about his judgment.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1666To outwit an enemy is not only just and glorious but profitable and sweet.
—Plutarch, c. 100Words pay no debts.
—William Shakespeare, 1601Pictures made in childhood are painted in bright hues.
—Kate Douglas Wiggin, 1886We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us but for ours to amuse them.
—Evelyn Waugh, 1963