In a true democracy, everyone can be upper-class and live in Connecticut.
—Lisa Birnbach, 1980
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Diseases, at least many of them, are like human beings. They are born, they flourish, and they die.
—David Riesman, 1937Cheating is more honorable than stealing.
—German proverbThe art of invention grows young with the things invented.
—Francis Bacon, 1605In the country gossip is a pastime; in the city it is a warfare.
—W.M.L. Jay, 1870In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.
—Herodotus, 440 BCNo wise man ever wished to be younger.
—Jonathan Swift, 1706I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool than I am.
—Alice James, 1889You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.
—Leon TrotskyThere is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship.
—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 1943It 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. 625I am a friend of the workingman, and I would rather be his friend than be one.
—Clarence Darrow, 1932As to the sea itself, love it you cannot. Why should you? I will never believe again the sea was ever loved by anyone whose life was married to it. It is the creation of omnipotence, which is not of humankind and understandable, and so the springs of its behavior are hidden.
—H.M. Tomlinson, 1912