If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.
—Dorothy Parker
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A crust of bread and a corner to sleep in / A minute to smile and an hour to weep in.
—Paul Laurence Dunbar, 1895Midnight shakes the memory
As a madman shakes a dead geranium.
Let my epitaph be, “Here lies Joseph, who failed in everything he undertook.”
—Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II, 1790Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but most important, it finds homes for us everywhere.
—Hazel Rochman, 1995The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them.
—Denis Diderot, 1777The chief merit of language is clearness, and we know that nothing detracts so much from this as do unfamiliar terms.
—Galen, c. 175The play is the tragedy “Man,” And its hero the conqueror worm.
—Edgar Allan Poe, 1843Will and energy sometimes prove greater than either genius or talent or temperament.
—Isadora Duncan, c. 1902If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater, suggest that he wear a tail.
—Fran Lebowitz, 1981Time will reveal everything. It is a babbler and speaks even when not asked.
—Euripides, c. 425 BCI’m president of the United States, and I’m not going to eat any more broccoli!
—George H. W. Bush, 1990I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas and land on barbarous coasts.
—Herman Melville, 1853