There will always be a lost dog somewhere that will prevent me from being happy.
—Jean Anouilh, 1934
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It costs a lot of money to be rich.
—Peter Boyle, 2002All revolutions devour their own children.
—Ernst Röhm, 1933Traveling is like flirting with life. It’s like saying, “I would stay here and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.”
—Lisa St. Aubin de Terán, 1989Resorting to the law to resolve a dispute is a declaration of spiritual bankruptcy.
—Quentin Crisp, 1984If the people be the governors, who shall be governed?
—John Cotton, c. 1636In every human breast, God has implanted a principle, which we call love of freedom; it is impatient of oppression and pants for deliverance.
—Phillis Wheatley, 1774Health can make money, but money cannot make health.
—Maria Edgeworth, 1833Hunting is all that’s worth living for—all time is lost what is not spent in hunting—it is like the air we breathe—if we have it not we die—it’s the sport of kings, the image of war without its guilt.
—Robert Smith Surtees, 1843The ability to store our data externally helps us imagine that our time is limitless, our space infinite.
—Carina Chocano, 2012Drugs, cataplasms, and whiskey are stupid substitutes for the dignity and potency of divine mind and its efficacy to heal.
—Mary Baker Eddy, 1908History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.
—Theodor Adorno, c. 1946From the cradle to the coffin, underwear comes first.
—Bertolt Brecht, 1928