Only the little people pay taxes.
—Leona Helmsley, 1989
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A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.
—Charles Baudelaire, 1852When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.
—Chinese proverbWhen the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.
—Winston Churchill, 1945Do you suppose that will change the sense of the morals, the fact that we can’t use morals as a means of judging the city because we couldn’t stand it? And that we’re changing our whole moral system to suit the fact that we’re living in a ridiculous way?
—Philip Johnson, 1965Whatsoever was the father of a disease, an ill diet was the mother.
—George Herbert, 1651There is a sickness among tyrants: they cannot trust their friends.
—Aeschylus, c. 458 BCWe die of comfort and by conflict live.
—May Sarton, 1953Water is the readiest means of making friends with nature.
—Ludwig Feuerbach, 1841To put one’s trust in God is only a longer way of saying that one will chance it.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1890The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.
—Steve Biko, 1971The land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.
—The BibleDo what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.
—Aleister Crowley, 1904