The future...something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
—C.S. Lewis, 1941
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If you are truly serious about preparing your child for the future, don’t teach him to subtract—teach him to deduct.
—Fran Lebowitz, 1981All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.
—Oscar Wilde, 1895I am not Athenian or Greek but a citizen of the world.
—Socrates, c. 420 BCI have always been of the mind that in a democracy, manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie knife.
—James Russell Lowell, 1873Give us the child for eight years and it will be a Bolshevist forever.
—Vladimir Lenin, 1923That which is evil is soon learned.
—John Ray, 1670As to the sea itself, love it you cannot. Why should you? I will never believe again the sea was ever loved by anyone whose life was married to it. It is the creation of omnipotence, which is not of humankind and understandable, and so the springs of its behavior are hidden.
—H.M. Tomlinson, 1912Yes to a market economy, no to a market society.
—Lionel Jospin, 1998In all the ancient states and empires, those who had the shipping, had the wealth.
—William Petty, 1690Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.
—Socrates, c. 430 BCA man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
—James Joyce, 1922The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.
—Maya Angelou, 1986