Wants keep pace with wealth always.
—Timothy Titcomb, 1859
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Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There’s no looking at a building here after seeing Italy.
—Fanny Burney, 1782Everyone lives by selling something.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1892Necessity knows no law except to conquer.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BCOne is never as unhappy as one thinks, nor as happy as one hopes.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1664Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
—Bertrand Russell, 1930Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.
—H.L. Mencken, 1919Perish the universe, provided I have my revenge.
—Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac, 1654The nature of God is a circle, of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere.
—Empedocles, c. 450 BCThe peasants alone are revolutionary, for they have nothing to lose and everything to gain. The starving peasant, outside the class system, is the first among the exploited to discover that only violence pays. For him there is no compromise, no possible coming to terms.
—Frantz Fanon, 1961There is no work of human hands which time does not wear away and reduce to dust.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 46 BCTelevision is democracy at its ugliest.
—Paddy Chayefsky, 1976Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.
—George Eliot, 1857