Communities do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1863
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When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.
—Ursula K. Le Guin, 1969There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.
—Kathleen Norris, 1931New things are always ugly.
—Willa Cather, 1921It’s only the futility of the first flood that prevents God from sending a second.
—Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, c. 1794Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.
—Socrates, c. 430 BCThere is nothing worse for mortals than a wandering life.
—Homer, c. 750 BCWhen the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.
—Winston Churchill, 1945Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
—E.B. White, 1944I used to think that everyone was just being funny. But now I don’t know. I mean, how can you tell?
—Andy Warhol, 1970We must confess that at present the rich predominate, but the future will be for the virtuous and ingenious.
—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688The ingrained idea that, because there is no king and they despise titles, the Americans are a free people is pathetically untrue.
—Margot Asquith, 1922Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
—John Donne, c. 1629