I do not amuse myself by thinking of dead people.
—Napoleon Bonaparte, 1807Quotes
There is no greater disaster than not to know contentment.
—Laozi, c. 550 BCThere 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, 1957The traveler with nothing on him sings in the robber’s face.
—Juvenal, c. 125Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.
—Herbert Hoover, 1936Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.
—H.L. Mencken, 1919We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.
—Aesop, c. 600 BCPhysician, 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. 1884If you stain clear water with filth, you will never find a drink.
—Aeschylus, 458 BCHumiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
—John Donne, c. 1629Man is a tool-using animal. Nowhere do you find him without tools; without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
—Thomas Carlyle, 1836Your body is the church where nature asks to be reverenced.
—Marquis de Sade, 1797Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
—Mao Zedong, 1938