Honest commerce is the great civilizer. We exchange ideas when we exchange fabrics.
—Robert G. Ingersoll, 1882
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Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government’s purposes are beneficent.
—Louis Brandeis, 1928The three little sentences that will get you through life. Number 1: Cover for me. Number 2: Oh, good idea, Boss! Number 3: It was like that when I got here.
—Nell Scovell, 1991One has to spend so many years in learning how to be happy.
—George Eliot, 1844One’s body, hair, and skin are a gift from one’s parents—do not dare to allow them to be harmed.
—Classic of Filial Piety, c. 200 BCHate must make a man productive. Otherwise one might as well love.
—Karl Kraus, 1912To outwit an enemy is not only just and glorious but profitable and sweet.
—Plutarch, c. 100We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.
—Oscar Wilde, 1887Traveling is like flirting with life. It’s like saying, “I would stay here and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.”
—Lisa St. Aubin de Terán, 1989Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be breakthrough.
—R.D. Laing, 1967Wit enables us to act rudely with impunity.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1678Brain, n. An apparatus with which we think that we think.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906It would be madness, and inconsistency, to suppose that things which have never yet been performed can be performed without employing some hitherto untried means.
—Francis Bacon, 1620