Curses are like young chickens, they always come home to roost.
—Robert Southey, 1809
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Nobody works as hard for his money as the man who marries it.
—Kin HubbardNo one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
—Bertrand Russell, 1961In the Middle Ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion.
—Robert Runcie, 1988There’s plenty of fire in the coldest flint!
—Rachel Field, 1939The mansion of modern freedoms stands on an ever-expanding base of fossil-fuel use.
—Dipesh Chakrabarty, 2008Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.
—Florence King, 1989Curse on all laws but those which love has made.
—Alexander Pope, 1717Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.
—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688It is hell to belong to a suppressed minority.
—Claude McKay, 1937The bathing was so delightful this morning, and Molly so pressing with me to enjoy myself, that I believe I stayed in rather too long, as since the middle of the day I have felt unreasonably tired. I shall be more careful another time, and shall not bathe tomorrow as I had before intended.
—Jane Austen, 1804Wit enables us to act rudely with impunity.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1678