The righteous know the needs of their animals, but the mercy of the wicked is cruel.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 500 BC
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It is better to live unknown to the law.
—Irish proverbThe true mission of American sports is to prepare young men for war.
—Dwight D. Eisenhower, c. 1952Slang is as old as speech and the congregating together of people in cities. It is the result of crowding and excitement and artificial life.
—John Camden Hotten, 1859We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea—whether it is to sail or to watch it—we are going back whence we came.
—John F. Kennedy, 1962Sic semper tyrannis! The South is avenged.
—John Wilkes Booth, 1865I always think of nature as a great spectacle, somewhat resembling the opera.
—Bernard de Fontenelle, 1686We and the dead ride quick at night.
—Gottfried August Bürger, 1773A woman should never be seen eating or drinking unless it be lobster salad and champagne, the only truly feminine and becoming viands.
—Lord Byron, 1812One man’s loss is another man’s profit.
—Michel de Montaigne, c. 1580The fundamental concept in social science is power, in the same sense in which energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
—Bertrand Russell, 1938Curses are like young chickens, they always come home to roost.
—Robert Southey, 1809Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words?
—Marcel Marceau, 1958