Quotes

I do not amuse myself by thinking of dead people.

—Napoleon Bonaparte, 1807

There is no greater disaster than not to know contentment.

—Laozi, c. 550 BC

There is a vital force in rumor. Though crushed to earth, to all intents and purposes buried, it can rise again without apparent effort.

—Eleanor Robson Belmont, 1957

The traveler with nothing on him sings in the robber’s face.

—Juvenal, c. 125

Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.

—Herbert Hoover, 1936

Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

—H.L. Mencken, 1919

We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.

—Aesop, c. 600 BC

Physician, heal yourself: thus you help your patient too. Let his best help be to see with his own eyes the man who makes himself well.

—Friedrich Nietzsche, c. 1884

If you stain clear water with filth, you will never find a drink.

—Aeschylus, 458 BC

Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.

—John Donne, c. 1629

Man is a tool-using animal. Nowhere do you find him without tools; without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.

—Thomas Carlyle, 1836

Your body is the church where nature asks to be reverenced.

—Marquis de Sade, 1797

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

—Mao Zedong, 1938

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