The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a star.
—Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, 1825
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Nobody works as hard for his money as the man who marries it.
—Kin HubbardUnder all speech that is good for anything, there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as eternity; speech is shallow as time.
—Thomas Carlyle, 1838I have said this before, but I shall say it again and again and again: your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars.
—Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1940If we pretend to respect the artist at all, we must allow him his freedom of choice, in the face, in particular cases, of innumerable presumptions that the choice will not fructify. Art derives a considerable part of its beneficial exercise from flying in the face of presumptions.
—Henry James, 1884Let the young know they will never find a more interesting, more instructive book than the patient himself.
—Giorgio Baglivi, c. 1696The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
—Aristotle, c. 350 BCI used to think that everyone was just being funny. But now I don’t know. I mean, how can you tell?
—Andy Warhol, 1970An American will build a house in which to pass his old age and sell it before the roof is on.
—Alexis de Tocqueville, 1840In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
—Gertrude Stein, 1937I don’t believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.
—Coretta Scott King, 1994There is no blindness more insidious, more fatal, than this race for profit.
—Helen Keller, 1928To blow and to swallow at the same time is not easy; I cannot at the same time be here and also there.
—Plautus, c. 200 BC