A friend in power is a friend lost.
—Henry Adams, 1905
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One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.
—Oscar Wilde, 1894The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.
—Edward VIII, 1957When nature is overriden, she takes her revenge.
—Marya Mannes, 1958Great inventors and discoverers seem to have made their discoveries and inventions, as it were, by the way, in the course of their everyday life.
—Elizabeth Charles, 1862What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
—Henry David Thoreau, 1850A real leader is somebody who can help us overcome the limitations of our own individual laziness and selfishness and weakness and fear and get us to do better, harder things than we can get ourselves to do on our own.
—David Foster Wallace, 2000I’m president of the United States, and I’m not going to eat any more broccoli!
—George H. W. Bush, 1990All streams run to the sea, but the sea is not full.
—Book of Ecclesiastes, c. 250 BCA school without grades must have been concocted by someone who was drunk on nonalcoholic wine.
—Karl Kraus, 1909Unexemplary words and unfounded doctrines are avoided by the noble person. Why utter them?
—Dong Zhongshu, c. 120 BCThe land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.
—The BibleThere comes a time in every rightly constructed boy’s life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.
—Mark Twain, 1876