Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god.
—Jean Rostand, 1939
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One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats.
—Iris Murdoch, 1978To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education.
—John Buchan, 1940What is food to one is to others bitter poison.
—Lucretius, 50 BCThe thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.
—Edward VIII, 1957He laughs best who laughs last.
—French proverbWho sees all beings in his own self, and his own self in all beings, loses all fear.
—The Upanishads, c. 800 BCThe decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.
—Luis Buñuel, 1983The U.S. presidency is a Tudor monarchy plus telephones.
—Anthony Burgess, 1972Civilization, as we know it, is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
—Arnold Toynbee, 1948The sea yields action to the body, meditation to the mind, the world to the world, all parts thereof to each part, by this art of arts—navigation.
—Samuel Purchas, 1613What harm is there in getting knowledge and learning, were it from a sot, a pot, a fool, a winter mitten, or an old slipper?
—François Rabelais, 1533Once a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
—Tacitus, c. 100