What reason weaves, by passion is undone.
—Alexander Pope, 1972
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If you stain clear water with filth, you will never find a drink.
—Aeschylus, 458 BCWith the dead there is no rivalry.
—Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1839There is no blindness more insidious, more fatal, than this race for profit.
—Helen Keller, 1928I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1816Is all our fire of shipwreck wood?
—Robert Browning, 1862Children and fools cannot lie.
—John Heywood, 1546Don’t lose your mind unless you have paid for it.
—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1902He who commands the sea has command of everything.
—Francis Bacon, c. 1600I’ve got some shit I’m conservative about and some shit I’m liberal about. Crime—I’m conservative. Prostitution—I’m liberal.
—Chris Rock, 2008Comedy, like sodomy, is an unnatural act.
—Marty Feldman, 1969The merchant always has fresh losses to expect, and the dread of base poverty forbids his rest.
—Decimus Magnus Ausonius, c. 390