War is sweet to those who don’t know it.
—Erasmus, 1508
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Happiness (as the mathematicians might say) lies on a curve, and we approach it only by asymptote.
—Christopher Morley, 1919In settling an island, the first building erected by a Spaniard will be a church, by a Frenchman a fort, by a Dutchman a warehouse, and by an Englishman an alehouse.
—Francis Grose, 1787All the world is topsy-turvy, and it has been topsy-turvy ever since the plague.
—Jack London, 1912Society as a whole must be converted into a gigantic school.
—Che Guevara, 1965In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1830Home is wherever I go.
—Indira Gandhi, 1955Nobody works as hard for his money as the man who marries it.
—Kin HubbardThere is no method by which men can be both free and equal.
—Walter Bagehot, 1863The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.
—Edward VIII, 1957He that raises a large family, does indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand…a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1786The things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist.
—Ernest Hemingway, 1929All our enemies are mortal.
—Paul Valéry, 1942