When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.
—Chinese proverb
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Money, not morality, is the principle of commercial nations.
—Thomas JeffersonThe poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1908Man’s great mission is not to conquer nature by main force but to cooperate with her intelligently but lovingly for his own purposes.
—Lewis Mumford, 1962Is this dying? Is this all? Is this all that I feared when I prayed against a hard death? Oh, I can bear this! I can bear it!
—Cotton Mather, 1728Love lasteth as long as the money endureth.
—William Caxton, 1476Better no law than no law enforced.
—Danish proverbIf people think Nature is their friend, then they sure don’t need an enemy.
—Kurt Vonnegut, 1988If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
—Mark Twain, 1894Man and animals are really the conduit of food, the sepulcher of animals, and resting place of the dead, one causing the death of the other, making themselves the covering for the corruption of other dead bodies.
—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1500There is a time to battle against nature, and a time to obey her. True wisdom lies in making the right choice.
—Arthur C. Clarke, 1979If both what is before and what is after are in this same “now,” things which happened ten thousand years ago would be simultaneous with what has happened today, and nothing would be before or after anything else.
—Aristotle, c. 330 BCSome writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
—Gore Vidal, 1981