Give us this day our television, and an automobile, but deliver us from freedom.
—Jean-Luc Godard, 1966
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Mammon, n. The god of the world’s leading religion. His chief temple is in the holy city of New York.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1911It’s the end of the world every day, for someone.
—Margaret Atwood, 2000The oldest voice in the world is the wind.
—Donald Culross Peattie, 1950The three little sentences that will get you through life. Number 1: Cover for me. Number 2: Oh, good idea, Boss! Number 3: It was like that when I got here.
—Nell Scovell, 1991Speak and speed; the close mouth catches no flies.
—Benjamin Franklin, c. 1732Nature resolves everything into its component elements, but annihilates nothing.
—Lucretius, c. 57 BCDon’t hit a man at all if you can avoid it, but if you have to hit him, knock him out.
—Theodore Roosevelt, 1916We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.
—Anna Sewell, 1877O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1599There are truths that prove their discoverers witless.
—Karl Kraus, 1909You can put wings on a pig, but you don’t make it an eagle.
—Bill Clinton, 1996He alone who owns the youth gains the future.
—Adolf Hitler, 1935