He that will cheat you at play, will cheat you any way.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732
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Childhood knows what it wants—to leave childhood behind.
—Jean Cocteau, 1947When arms speak, the laws are silent.
—Cicero, 52 BCNo man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.
—Samuel Johnson, 1776Once you hear the details of a victory it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
—Jean-Paul Sartre, 1951I’m president of the United States, and I’m not going to eat any more broccoli!
—George H. W. Bush, 1990Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1819If there is a word in the dictionary under any letter from A to Z that I abominate, it is energy.
—Charles Dickens, 1865Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.
—Saint Augustine, c. 387Good men must not obey the laws too well.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844Many are the wonders of the world, and none so wonderful as man.
—Sophocles, c. 441 BCCommerce tends to wear off those prejudices which maintain distinction and animosity between nations.
—William Robertson, 1769Keep away from physicians. It is all probing and guessing and pretending with them. They leave it to nature to cure in her own time, but they take the credit. As well as very fat fees.
—Anthony Burgess, 1964