For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?
—Jane Austen, 1813
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To ensure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough; a police force is needed as well.
—Albert Camus, 1951Whatsoever was the father of a disease, an ill diet was the mother.
—George Herbert, 1651Ah! Freedom is a noble thing!
—John Barbour, 1375There is no small pleasure in sweet water.
—Ovid, c. 10Revolutions are always verbose.
—Leon Trotsky, 1933Happiness (as the mathematicians might say) lies on a curve, and we approach it only by asymptote.
—Christopher Morley, 1919Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It’s what separates us from the animals—except the weasel.
—The Simpsons, 1993The less a man knows about the past and the present, the more insecure must prove to be his judgment of the future.
—Sigmund Freud, 1927A school without grades must have been concocted by someone who was drunk on nonalcoholic wine.
—Karl Kraus, 1909Punishment is a sort of medicine.
—Aristotle, c. 340 BCMy interest is in the future, because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
—Charles F. Kettering, 1946An American will build a house in which to pass his old age and sell it before the roof is on.
—Alexis de Tocqueville, 1840