What is the city but the people?
—William Shakespeare, 1608
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You have all the characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
—Aristophanes, c. 424 BCThe body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body.
—Anaïs Nin, 1935It costs a lot of money to be rich.
—Peter Boyle, 2002All progress is based upon a universal, innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1890Education—a debt due from present to future generations.
—George Peabody, 1852The life of spies is to know, not be known.
—George Herbert, c. 1621I do desire we may be better strangers.
—William Shakespeare, 1600Nobody works as hard for his money as the man who marries it.
—Kin HubbardDisease is not of the body but of the place.
—Latin proverbNot a change for the better in our human housekeeping has ever taken place that wise and good men have not opposed it—have not prophesied that the world would wake up to find its throat cut in consequence.
—James Russell Lowell, 1884O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1599The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.
—Agnes Repplier, 1929