Cheating is more honorable than stealing.
—German proverb
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A shopkeeper will never get the more custom by beating his customers; and what is true of a shopkeeper is true of a shopkeeping nation.
—Josiah Tucker, 1766All that we know is nothing can be known.
—Lord Byron, 1812The Revolution is made by man, but man must forge his revolutionary spirit from day to day.
—Che Guevara, 1968The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.
—Luis Buñuel, 1983Water, thou hast no taste, no color, no odor; canst not be defined, art relished while ever mysterious.
—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 1939Memory is like the moon, which hath its new, its full, and its wane.
—Margaret Cavendish, 1655Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.
—George Orwell, 1944To hold a throne is luck; to bestow it, virtue.
—Seneca the Younger, c. 45If the people be the governors, who shall be governed?
—John Cotton, c. 1636Nobody works as hard for his money as the man who marries it.
—Kin HubbardThere are two times in a man’s life when he should not speculate: when he can’t afford it, and when he can.
—Mark Twain, 1897It is wretched business to be digging a well just as you’re dying of thirst.
—Plautus, c. 193 BC