It costs a lot of money to be rich.
—Peter Boyle, 2002
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Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
—Saint Augustine, c. 400Cities are the abyss of the human species.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762Mammon, n. The god of the world’s leading religion. His chief temple is in the holy city of New York.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1911Nobody works as hard for his money as the man who marries it.
—Kin HubbardThe future comes like an unwelcome guest.
—Edmund Gosse, 1873No time to marry, no time to settle down, I’m a young woman, and ain’t done runnin’ round.
—Bessie Smith, 1926Fear has a smell, as love does.
—Margaret Atwood, 1972Every fool becomes a philosopher after ten days of rain.
—Clover Adams, 1882Honest commerce is the great civilizer. We exchange ideas when we exchange fabrics.
—Robert G. Ingersoll, 1882Our allotted time is the passing of a shadow.
—Book of Wisdom, c. 100 BCSic semper tyrannis! The South is avenged.
—John Wilkes Booth, 1865If 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., 1954