Charity is murder and you know it.
—Dorothy Parker, 1956
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Think rich. Look poor.
—Andy Warhol, 1975Sport is the bloom and glow of a perfect health.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1838Trade is a social act.
—John Stuart Mill, 1859The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1919Inventor, n. A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers, and springs and believes it civilization.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1911A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast.
—The BibleThe world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
—Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1851What keeps the democracy alive at all but the hatred of excellence, the desire of the base to see no head higher than their own?
—Mary Renault, 1956A criminal may improve and become a decent member of society. A foreigner cannot improve. Once a foreigner, always a foreigner. There is no way out for him.
—George Mikes, 1946The unknown is the largest need of the intellect.
—Emily Dickinson, 1876I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.
—Xenocrates, c. 350 BCWe want a lot of engineers in the modern world, but we do not want a world of engineers.
—Winston Churchill, 1948