From a man’s face, I can read his character. If I can see him walk, I know his thoughts.
—Gaius Petronius Arbiter, c. 60
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We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison.
—Marcel Proust, c. 1922Nobody works as hard for his money as the man who marries it.
—Kin HubbardThe life of spies is to know, not be known.
—George Herbert, c. 1621Never make a defense or apology before you be accused.
—Charles I, 1636Be courteous to all but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
—George Washington, 1783Communities do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1863They are trying to make me into a fixed star. I am an irregular planet.
—Martin Luther, c. 1530The most may err as grossly as the few.
—John Dryden, 1681The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education. School is where you go between when your parents can’t take you and industry can’t take you.
—John Updike, 1963Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
—Saint Augustine, c. 400No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation.
—Woodrow Wilson, 1915Is it a fact—or have I dreamed it—that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating thousands of miles in a breathless point of time?
—Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1851