I’m president of the United States, and I’m not going to eat any more broccoli!
—George H. W. Bush, 1990
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Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous.
—Pierre Boulez, 1989Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1928The civilized man has built a coach but has lost the use of his feet.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841It is He who has subdued the ocean so that you may eat of its fresh fish and bring up from its depth ornaments to wear. Behold the ships plowing their course through it. All this, that you may seek His bounty and render thanks.
—The Qur’an, c. 625Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.
—Samuel Johnson, c. 1770People living deeply have no fear of death.
—Anaïs Nin, 1935No man will take counsel, but every man will take money: therefore money is better than counsel.
—Jonathan Swift, 1702Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.
—Plautus, c. 200 BCEveryone lives by selling something.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1892Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.
—William Morris, 1882There is no greater disaster than not to know contentment.
—Laozi, c. 550 BCGrow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth.
—Czeslaw Milosz, 1946