Commerce has made all winds her ministers.
—John Sterling, 1843
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All that we know is nothing can be known.
—Lord Byron, 1812The more laws, the more lawbreakers.
—Tao Te Ching, c. 500 BCIt’s the end of the world every day, for someone.
—Margaret Atwood, 2000In times of pestilence, gaiety and joyousness are most profitable.
—Jacme d’Agramont, 1348Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height.
—E.M. Forster, 1910A college degree is a social certificate, not a proof of competence.
—Elbert Hubbard, 1911No nation was ever ruined by trade.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1774Modern life is often a mechanical oppression, and liquor is the only mechanical relief.
—Ernest Hemingway, 1935Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t.
—William Shakespeare, 1603It is delightful to read on the spot the impressions and opinions of tourists who visited a hundred years ago, in the vehicles and with the aesthetic prejudices of the period, the places which you are visiting now. The voyage ceases to be a mere tour through space; you travel through time and thought as well.
—Aldous Huxley, 1925Some folks want their luck buttered.
—Thomas Hardy, 1886Great cities must ever be centers of light and darkness, the home of the best and the worst of our race, holding within themselves the highest talent for good and evil.
—Matthew Hale Smith, 1868