We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink, for dining alone is leading the life of a lion or wolf.
—Epicurus, c. 300 BC
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Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
—Ulysses S. Grant, 1877The people are the foundation of the state. If the foundations are firm, the state will be tranquil.
—Classic of History, c. 400 BCGod is alive. Magic is afoot.
—Leonard Cohen, 1966Honest commerce is the great civilizer. We exchange ideas when we exchange fabrics.
—Robert G. Ingersoll, 1882The deed is everything, the glory naught.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1832Had Cleopatra’s nose been shorter, the whole face of the world would have changed.
—Blaise Pascal, 1658Industrialism is the religion with “the machine” as the god going to answer all the prayers. Communism and capitalism were just competing sects.
—Dora Russell, 1983Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.
—James Madison, 1794All God’s children are not beautiful. Most of God’s children are, in fact, barely presentable.
—Fran Lebowitz, 1978Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1610At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
—W. Somerset Maugham, 1896The first thing that a new migrant sends to his family back home isn’t money; it’s a story.
—Suketu Mehta, 2019