Some folks want their luck buttered.
—Thomas Hardy, 1886
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How like to us is that filthy beast the ape.
—Cicero, 45 BCGod seems to have left the receiver off the hook, and time is running out.
—Arthur Koestler, 1967Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
—Cormac McCarthy, 1992When arms speak, the laws are silent.
—Cicero, 52 BCAttend to earth,
for it is to earth that kings are truly wedded.
Familiarity breeds contempt—and children.
—Mark Twain, c. 1900Nature is the art of God.
—Thomas Browne, 1635Gossip isn’t scandal and it’s not merely malicious. It’s chatter about the human race by lovers of the same.
—Phyllis McGinley, 1957Peace is a natural effect of trade.
—Montesquieu, 1748Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1755The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man’s body.
—Francis Bacon, 1605We need strength, we need energy, we need quickness, and we need brain in this country to turn it around.
—Donald Trump, 2015