Money is mourned with deeper sorrow than friends or kindred.
—Juvenal, 128
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I never practice, I always play.
—Wanda Landowska, 1953Educate people without religion and you make them but clever devils.
—Arthur Wellesley, c. 1830Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.
—G.C. Lichtenberg, c. 1780Home is the girl’s prison and the woman’s workhouse.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903Casting lots causes contentions to cease, and keeps the mighty apart.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 350 BCWhoever has died is freed from sin.
—St. Paul, c. 50All pain is one malady with many names.
—Antiphanes, c. 400 BCAh, there are no children nowadays.
—Molière, 1673All of the great musicians have borrowed from the songs of the common people.
—Antonín Dvořák, 1893Good fortune turns aside destruction by a great god.
—Instructions of Ankhsheshonqy, c. 100 BCOne form of loneliness is to have a memory and no one to share it with.
—Phyllis Rose, 1991The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family.
—Paul Johnson, 1989