There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink.
—Booth Tarkington, 1914
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Our allotted time is the passing of a shadow.
—Book of Wisdom, c. 100 BCBlessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.
—Herbert Hoover, 1936He who has nothing has no friends.
—Greek proverbReligion! How it dominates man’s mind, how it humiliates and degrades his soul. God is everything, man is nothing, says religion. But out of that nothing God has created a kingdom so despotic, so tyrannical, so cruel, so terribly exacting that naught but gloom and tears and blood have ruled the world since gods began.
—Emma Goldman, 1910You furnish the pictures, and I’ll furnish the war.
—William Randolph Hearst, 1898The period of a [Persian] boy’s education is between the ages of five and twenty, and he is taught three things only: to ride, to use the bow, and to speak the truth.
—Herodotus, c. 440 BCGossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco pipes of those who diffuse it; it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.
—George Eliot, 1876Man is a tool-using animal. Nowhere do you find him without tools; without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
—Thomas Carlyle, 1836There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1790We seek with our human hands to create a second nature in the natural world.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 45 BCEnemies to me are the sauce piquant to my dish of life.
—Elsa Maxwell, 1955Business is other people’s money.
—Delphine de Girardin, 1852