Children and fools cannot lie.
—John Heywood, 1546
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Home is wherever I go.
—Indira Gandhi, 1955Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations—wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.
—Edmund Burke, 1795What a glut of books! Who can read them? As already, we shall have a vast chaos and confusion of books; we are oppressed with them, our eyes ache with reading, our fingers with turning.
—Robert Burton, 1621Religion is by no means a proper subject of conversation in mixed company.
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 1754The twilight is the crack between the worlds.
—Carlos Castaneda, 1968Money, not morality, is the principle of commercial nations.
—Thomas JeffersonMost authors seek fame, but I seek for justice—a holier impulse than ever entered into the ambitious struggles of the votaries of that fickle, flirting goddess.
—Davy Crockett, 1834For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.
—Richard Feynman, 1986It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.
—Jean de La Fontaine, 1668A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
—James Joyce, 1922I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.
—Cato the Elder, c. 184 BCFor, say they, when cruising in an empty ship, if you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
—Herman Melville, 1851