Your mind’s got to eat, too.
—Dambudzo Marechera, 1978
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God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.
—J.M. Barrie, 1922It costs a lot to make a person look this cheap.
—Dolly Parton, 1994Governments are not overthrown by the poor, who have no power, but by the rich—when they are insulted by their inferiors and cannot obtain justice.
—Dionysius of Halicarnassus, c. 20 BCPut national causes first and personal grudges last.
—Sima Qian, c. 91 BCA good dog, sir, deserves a good bone.
—Ben Jonson, 1633A bad reputation is easy to come by, painful to bear, and difficult to clear.
—Hesiod, c. 700 BCThis country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.
—Abraham Lincoln, 1861Who lives in fear will never be a free man.
—Horace, 19 BCMan is a tool-using animal. Nowhere do you find him without tools; without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
—Thomas Carlyle, 1836You cannot endow even the best machine with initiative; the jolliest steamroller will not plant flowers.
—Walter Lippmann, 1913By night an atheist half believes a God.
—Edward Young, c. 1745Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 30 BC