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Quotes

Some folks want their luck buttered.

—Thomas Hardy, 1886

How like to us is that filthy beast the ape.

—Cicero, 45 BC

God seems to have left the receiver off the hook, and time is running out.

—Arthur Koestler, 1967

Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.

—Cormac McCarthy, 1992

When arms speak, the laws are silent.

—Cicero, 52 BC

Attend to earth,
for it is to earth that kings are truly wedded.

—Kalidasa, c. 450

Familiarity breeds contempt—and children.

—Mark Twain, c. 1900

Nature is the art of God.

—Thomas Browne, 1635

Gossip isn’t scandal and it’s not merely malicious. It’s chatter about the human race by lovers of the same.

—Phyllis McGinley, 1957

Peace is a natural effect of trade.

—Montesquieu, 1748

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

—Benjamin Franklin, 1755

The 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, 1605

We need strength, we need energy, we need quickness, and we need brain in this country to turn it around.

—Donald Trump, 2015