Don’t try to make a profit on a bad trade; just try to find the best place to get out.
—Linda Bradford Raschke, 1992
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He who has nothing has no friends.
—Greek proverbThe sea hath fish for every man.
—William Camden, 1605I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1816It seems to me that we all look at nature too much and live with her too little.
—Oscar Wilde, 1897If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.
—Francis Bacon, 1615The life of the dead consists in the recollection cherished of them by the living.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 43 BCGrow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth.
—Czeslaw Milosz, 1946What delight can there be, and not rather displeasure, in hearing the barking and howling of dogs? Or what greater pleasure is there to be felt when a dog followeth a hare than when a dog followeth a dog?
—Thomas More, 1516Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing—the rest is mere sheep herding.
—Ezra Pound, 1934War has silenced all laws.
—Lucan, c. 65Keep running after a dog, and he will never bite you.
—François Rabelais, 1535If law and justice do not attain their ends, the people will be unable to move hand or foot.
—Confucius, c. 500