Revolutions are not about trifles, but they are produced by trifles.
—Aristotle, c. 350 BC
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Man is a tool-using animal. Nowhere do you find him without tools; without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
—Thomas Carlyle, 1836I’ve been on a calendar, but never on time.
—Marilyn Monroe, 1962As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
—Abraham Lincoln, c. 1858That obtained in youth may endure like characters engraved in stones.
—Ibn Gabirol, 1040What one man can invent another can discover.
—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1905The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.
—Victor Hugo, 1862Every ass thinks himself worthy to stand with the king’s horses.
—Gnomologia, 1732It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
—Upton Sinclair, 1935Usually speaking, the worst-bred person in company is a young traveler just returned from abroad.
—Jonathan Swift, c. 1730Anyone who has passed through the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.
—William Hazlitt, 1821If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.
—Dorothy ParkerMy face looks like a wedding cake left out in the rain.
—W.H. Auden, c. 1967