Television has made dictatorship impossible, but democracy unbearable.
—Shimon Peres, 1995
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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us but for ours to amuse them.
—Evelyn Waugh, 1963Nobody works as hard for his money as the man who marries it.
—Kin HubbardGo to the ant, you lazybones; consider its ways, and be wise.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 350 BCThe mind is not, I know, a highway but a temple, and its doors should not be carelessly left open.
—Margaret Fuller, 1844I shall embrace my rival—until I suffocate him.
—Jean Racine, 1669Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
—Alexander Pope, 1738In a court of fowls, the cockroach never wins its case.
—Rwandan proverbWar has silenced all laws.
—Lucan, c. 65I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute, where no Catholic prelate would tell the president (should he be a Catholic) how to act and no Protestant minister would tell his parishioners for whom to vote.
—John F. Kennedy, 1960The righteous know the needs of their animals, but the mercy of the wicked is cruel.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 500 BCBefore the earth could become an industrial garbage can, it had first to become a research laboratory.
—Theodore Roszak, 1972So many men, so many opinions.
—Terence, 161 BC