Big head, little wit.
—French proverb
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One has to spend so many years in learning how to be happy.
—George Eliot, 1844If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.
—Francis Bacon, 1625The best moment of love is when the lover leaves in the taxi.
—Michel Foucault, c. 1982It’s easy to be independent when you’ve got money. But to be independent when you haven’t got a thing—that’s the Lord’s test.
—Mahalia Jackson, 1966The character which results from wealth is that of a prosperous fool.
—Aristotle, c. 322 BCTo desire immortality for the individual is really the same as wanting to perpetuate an error forever.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1819Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.
—Plautus, c. 200 BCA frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.
—Charles Baudelaire, 1852For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.
—Charles Baudelaire, c. 1865Men are able to assist fortune but not to thwart her. They can weave her designs, but they cannot destroy them.
—Niccolò Machiavelli, 1531Seamen are the nearest to death and the furthest from God.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
—Pablo Neruda, 1924