Machines do not run in order to enable men to live, but we resign ourselves to feeding men in order that they may serve the machines.
—Simone Weil, 1934
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I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
—Thomas Hobbes, 1679We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
—D.H. Lawrence, 1928There will always be a lost dog somewhere that will prevent me from being happy.
—Jean Anouilh, 1934The more corrupt the state, the more numerous its laws.
—Tacitus, c. 110One of the animals which a generous and sociable man would soonest become is a dog. A dog can have a friend; he has affections and character; he can enjoy equally the field and the fireside; he dreams, he caresses, he propitiates; he offends and is pardoned; he stands by you in adversity; he is a good fellow.
—Leigh Hunt, 1834Better no law than no law enforced.
—Danish proverbTime is a veil interposed between God and ourselves, as our eyelid is between our eye and the light.
—François-René de Chateaubriand, c. 1820Spit not in the well; you may have to drink its water.
—French proverbOne of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat eight hours a day, nor drink for eight hours a day, nor make love for eight hours.
—William Faulkner, 1958Lord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
—Jonathan Swift, 1738He knows the water best who has waded through it.
—Danish proverbHe that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
—Francis Bacon, 1625