He that will cheat you at play, will cheat you any way.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732
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I’m president of the United States, and I’m not going to eat any more broccoli!
—George H. W. Bush, 1990Memory is the only
afterlife I can understand.
Revolution begins in putting on bright colors.
—Tennessee Williams, 1944A win always seems shallow: it is the loss that is so profound and suggests nasty infinities.
—E.M. Forster, 1919To be a successful father… there’s one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don’t look at it for the first two years.
—Ernest Hemingway, 1954Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need—a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing.
—Jerome K. Jerome, 1889As 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, 1912I don’t believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.
—Coretta Scott King, 1994When arms speak, the laws are silent.
—Cicero, 52 BCIf you are truly serious about preparing your child for the future, don’t teach him to subtract—teach him to deduct.
—Fran Lebowitz, 1981Money is mourned with deeper sorrow than friends or kindred.
—Juvenal, 128Survivors look back and see omens, messages they missed.
—Joan Didion, 2005