The young leading the young is like the blind leading the blind.
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 1747
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Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a centaur, a leopard, a wolf, or a bull?
—Aristophanes, 423 BCOnce any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.
—Margaret Mead, 1972Wherever commerce prevails there will be an inequality of wealth, and wherever the latter does a simplicity of manners must decline.
—James Madison, 1783The money we have is the means to liberty; that which we pursue is the means to slavery.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, c. 1770A broken friendship may be soldered but will never be sound.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1735Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations—wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.
—Edmund Burke, 1795Even though counting heads is not an ideal way to govern, at least it is better than breaking them.
—Learned Hand, 1932To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968Love is giving something you haven’t got to someone who doesn’t exist.
—Jacques LacanThe dead are often just as living to us as the living are, only we cannot get them to believe it. They can come to us, but till we die we cannot go to them. To be dead is to be unable to understand that one is alive.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1888A sick child is always the mother’s property; her own feelings generally make it so.
—Jane Austen, 1816