Kings and fools know no law.
—German proverb
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To be a successful father… there’s one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don’t look at it for the first two years.
—Ernest Hemingway, 1954I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
—Galileo Galilei, 1615Every communist must grasp the truth: “Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.”
—Mao Zedong, 1938It costs a lot of money to be rich.
—Peter Boyle, 2002It was lonesome, the leaving.
—Wetatonmi, c. 1877I think it makes small difference to the dead if they are buried in the tokens of luxury. All this is an empty glorification left for those who live.
—Euripides, 415 BCThe only equals are those who are equally rich.
—Burundian proverbIt is not a case we are treating; it is a living, palpitating, alas, too often suffering fellow creature.
—John Brown, 1904In psychoanalysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.
—Theodor Adorno, 1951Imagination continually outruns the creature it inhabits.
—Katherine Anne Porter, 1949Make the revolution a parent of settlement and not a nursery of future revolutions.
—Edmund Burke, 1790Water, thou hast no taste, no color, no odor; canst not be defined, art relished while ever mysterious.
—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 1939