Men are what their mothers made them.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1860
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Charity is murder and you know it.
—Dorothy Parker, 1956One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
—E.B. White, 1958Time’s violence rends the soul; by the rent eternity enters.
—Simone Weil, 1947Honest commerce is the great civilizer. We exchange ideas when we exchange fabrics.
—Robert G. Ingersoll, 1882Money is a language for translating the work of the farmer into the work of the barber, doctor, engineer, or plumber.
—Marshall McLuhan, 1964Be not the slave of your own past. Plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so shall you come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1838According to the law of custom, and perhaps of reason, foreign travel completes the education of an English gentleman.
—Edward Gibbon, c. 1794Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.
—Kate Moss, 2009Drive your cart and your plow over the bones of the dead.
—William Blake, c. 1790To blow and to swallow at the same time is not easy; I cannot at the same time be here and also there.
—Plautus, c. 200 BCA government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always count on the support of Paul.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1944For most of us, nighttime dreaming brings us closer to our identities and our power than any activity in the waking world.
—Walter Mosley, 2000