If they prescribe a lot of remedies for some sickness or other, it means that the sickness is incurable.
—Anton Chekhov, 1904
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We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
—Jonathan Swift, 1706To hide and feel guilty would be the beginning of defeat.
—Milan Kundera, 1978Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.
—J. Paul GettyIt is very foolish to attack one’s enemy openly if one can injure him in secret.
—Giambattista Giraldi, 1543Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
—Albert Camus, c. 1940Travel is like adultery: one is always tempted to be unfaithful to one’s own country. To have imagination is inevitably to be dissatisfied with where you live.
—Anatole Broyard, 1989A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
—Ouida, 1880I shall be an autocrat: that’s my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that’s his.
—Catherine the Great, c. 1796Nothing puzzles me more than time and space, and yet nothing puzzles me less, for I never think about them.
—Charles Lamb, 1810War is the child of pride, and pride the daughter of riches.
—Jonathan Swift, 1697A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.
—Ralph Nader, 2000Memories are hunting horns
whose noise dies away in the wind.