If you steal, do not steal too much at a time. You may be arrested. Steal cleverly, little by little.
—Mobutu Sese Seko, 1991
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This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are asked; unasked, they will never desist.
—Horace, c. 35 BCPeople revere the Constitution yet know so little about it—and that goes for some of my fellow senators.
—Robert Byrd, 2005Every man must descend into the flesh to meet mankind.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1910Hygienic law, like martial law, supersedes rights in crises.
—Samuel Hopkins Adams, 1913One of the things men should most strive to do is win a good reputation and see that no one questions it.
—Juan Manuel, 1335We are a commercial people. We cannot boast of our arts, our crafts, our cultivation; our boast is in the wealth we produce.
—Ida M. Tarbell, 1904Fashion, n. A despot whom the wise ridicule and obey.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1911I proclaim night more truthful than the day.
—Léopold Sédar Senghor, 1956The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other.
—Mario Puzo, 2001Most authors seek fame, but I seek for justice—a holier impulse than ever entered into the ambitious struggles of the votaries of that fickle, flirting goddess.
—Davy Crockett, 1834Everyone else is represented in Washington by a rich and powerful lobby, it seems. But there is no lobby for the people.
—Shirley Chisholm, 1970The real problem of humanity is the following: we have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology.
—Edward O. Wilson, 2009