If I had the use of my body I would throw it out of the window.
—Samuel Beckett, 1951
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Money, not morality, is the principle of commercial nations.
—Thomas JeffersonImitate the ass in his love to his master.
—St. John Chrysostom, c. 388The less a man knows about the past and the present, the more insecure must prove to be his judgment of the future.
—Sigmund Freud, 1927The important thing, I think, is not to be bitter. You know, if it turns out that there is a God, I don’t think that he’s evil. I think that the worst thing you could say about him is that basically he’s an underachiever. After all, you know, there are worse things in life than death.
—Woody Allen, 1975The only justification of rebellion is success.
—Thomas B. Reed, 1878Whoever expects to walk peacefully in the world must be money’s guest.
—Norman O. Brown, 1959The boy is, of all wild beasts, the most difficult to manage.
—Plato, c. 348 BCRevolutionaries are greater sticklers for formality than conservatives.
—Italo Calvino, 1957Animals are good to think with.
—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1962You must not grow used to making money out of everything. One sees more people ruined than one has seen preserved by shameful gains.
—Sophocles, c. 442 BCI think heaven will not be as good as earth, unless it bring with it that sweet power to remember, which is the staple of heaven here.
—Emily Dickinson, 1879Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
—Anaïs Nin, 1939