Inventions that are not made, like babies that are not born, are rarely missed.
—John Kenneth Galbraith, 1958
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Some nights are like honey—and some like wine—and some like wormwood.
—L.M. Montgomery, 1927For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.
—Charles Baudelaire, c. 1865France has neither winter, summer, nor morals—apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.
—Mark Twain, 1879The newspaper is the natural enemy of the book, as the whore is of the decent woman.
—Edmond and Jules de Goncourt, 1858Does anybody really want to attend to cities other than to flee, fleece, privatize, butcher, or decimate them?
—Jane Holtz Kay, 1992The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
—John Locke, 1695Some are born to sweet delight,
Some are born to endless night.
Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.
—Miguel de Unamuno, 1913The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.
—Marianne Moore, 1935My stern chase after time is, to borrow a simile from Tom Paine, like the race of a man with a wooden leg after a horse.
—John Quincy Adams, 1844Dread attends the unknown.
—Nadine Gordimer, 1998The state dictates and coerces; religion teaches and persuades. The state enacts laws; religion gives commandments. The state is armed with physical force and makes use of it if need be; the force of religion is love and benevolence.
—Moses Mendelssohn, 1783