Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.
—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688
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Exile lacks the grandeur, the majesty, of expatriation.
—Bharati Mukherjee, 1999Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.
—G.C. Lichtenberg, c. 1780No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes.
—Hannah Arendt, 1963The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.
—Luis Buñuel, 1983Travelers, poets, and liars are three words all of one significance.
—Richard Brathwaite, 1631Wit enables us to act rudely with impunity.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1678Money, not morality, is the principle of commercial nations.
—Thomas JeffersonOne religion is as true as another.
—Robert Burton, 1621O flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified!
—William Shakespeare, c. 1596There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1790Sic semper tyrannis! The South is avenged.
—John Wilkes Booth, 1865Music today is nothing more than the art of performing difficult pieces.
—Voltaire, 1759