A false report rides post.
—English proverb
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One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats.
—Iris Murdoch, 1978To hold a throne is luck; to bestow it, virtue.
—Seneca the Younger, c. 45The more laws, the more lawbreakers.
—Tao Te Ching, c. 500 BCGrow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth.
—Czeslaw Milosz, 1946People react to fear, not love—they don’t teach that in Sunday school, but it’s true.
—Richard Nixon, 1975Freedom of the press is only guaranteed to those who own one.
—A.J. Liebling, 1960I had rather be in a state of misery and envied for my supposed happiness than in a state of happiness and pitied for my supposed misery.
—Elizabeth Inchbald, 1793Jazz is the result of the energy stored up in America.
—George Gershwin, 1933The root of the kingdom is in the State. The root of the State is in the family. The root of the family is in the person of its Head.
—Mencius, c. 270 BCThe charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chawing a hunk of melon in the dust.
—Elizabeth Bowen, 1955For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?
—Jane Austen, 1813The sick man is the parasite of society.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1889