Friendship! Sir, there can be no such thing without an equality.
—George Farquhar, 1702
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You should never have your best trousers on when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.
—Henrik Ibsen, 1882Don’t try to make a profit on a bad trade; just try to find the best place to get out.
—Linda Bradford Raschke, 1992There be beasts that, at a year old, observe more, and pursue that which is for their good more prudently, than a child can do at ten.
—Thomas Hobbes, 1651Commerce tends to wear off those prejudices which maintain distinction and animosity between nations.
—William Robertson, 1769Plagues are as certain as death and taxes.
—Richard Krause, 1982Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1871I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.
—Michelangelo Antonioni, 1967As matron and mistress will differ in temper and tone, so will the friend be distinct from the faithless parasite.
—Horace, c. 20 BCFame is but the empty noise of madmen.
—Epictetus, c. 100In my dreams I sleep with everybody.
—Anaïs Nin, 1933Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea? How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.
—Sydney Smith, 1855Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.
—W.H. Auden, c. 1940