A broken friendship may be soldered but will never be sound.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732
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Keep running after a dog, and he will never bite you.
—François Rabelais, 1535Money, not morality, is the principle of commercial nations.
—Thomas JeffersonThe fundamental concept in social science is power, in the same sense in which energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
—Bertrand Russell, 1938That which is evil is soon learned.
—John Ray, 1670Cows are among the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them—and, in short, I am not ashamed to profess a deep love for these quiet creatures.
—Thomas De Quincey, 1821Don’t you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up?
—D.H. Lawrence, 1920Everything that has wings is beyond the reach of the law.
—Joseph Joubert, 1791What a torture to talk to filled heads that allow nothing from the outside to enter them.
—Joseph Joubert, 1807There is a vital force in rumor. Though crushed to earth, to all intents and purposes buried, it can rise again without apparent effort.
—Eleanor Robson Belmont, 1957Most men employ the first years of their life in making the last miserable.
—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688Man’s great mission is not to conquer nature by main force but to cooperate with her intelligently but lovingly for his own purposes.
—Lewis Mumford, 1962One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
—Elbert Hubbard, 1911