Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
—Oscar Wilde, 1893
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If I lose at play, I blaspheme, and if my fellow loses, he blasphemes. So that God is always sure to be the loser.
—John Donne, 1623Freedom of the press is only guaranteed to those who own one.
—A.J. Liebling, 1960One’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
—George Santayana, c. 1914Is all our fire of shipwreck wood?
—Robert Browning, 1862Can you take your country with you on the soles of your shoes?
—Georg Büchner, 1835It would be impossible to live for a year without disaster unless one practiced character-reading.
—Virginia Woolf, 1924I look for the end of the future, but it never ceases to arrive.
—Zhuangzi, c. 325 BCLanguage is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1915It is one thing to slander, another to accuse.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 56 BCDon’t talk to me about naval tradition. It’s nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash.
—Winston Churchill, 1939Money, not morality, is the principle of commercial nations.
—Thomas JeffersonHe laughs best who laughs last.
—French proverb