A shopkeeper will never get the more custom by beating his customers; and what is true of a shopkeeper is true of a shopkeeping nation.
—Josiah Tucker, 1766
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As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
—Pope John Paul II, 1986He that raises a large family, does indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand…a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1786The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.
—Edward, Duke of Windsor, 1957A college degree is a social certificate, not a proof of competence.
—Elbert Hubbard, 1911A god cannot procure death for himself, even if he wished it, which, so numerous are the evils of life, has been granted to man as our chief good.
—Pliny the Elder, c. 77But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.
—Genesis, c. 900 BCAn American will build a house in which to pass his old age and sell it before the roof is on.
—Alexis de Tocqueville, 1840Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins. Which of these two has the grander view?
—Victor Hugo, 1862What timid man does not avoid contact with the sick, fearing lest he contract a disease so near?
—Ovid, c. 10A machine is a slave that neither brings nor bears degradation.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1844Those who go overseas find a change of climate, not a change of soul.
—Horace, c. 20 BCEvery house: temple, empire, school.
—Joseph Joubert, 1800