Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1890
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The vice presidency isn’t worth a pitcher of warm piss.
—John Nance Garner, c. 1967Slang is as old as speech and the congregating together of people in cities. It is the result of crowding and excitement and artificial life.
—John Camden Hotten, 1859If the people be the governors, who shall be governed?
—John Cotton, c. 1636Rivalry is the whetstone of talent.
—Roman proverbThe severity of a teacher is better than the love of a father.
—Saadi, 1258A man is not idle, because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
—Victor Hugo, 1862It is He who has subdued the ocean so that you may eat of its fresh fish and bring up from its depth ornaments to wear. Behold the ships plowing their course through it. All this, that you may seek His bounty and render thanks.
—The Qur’an, c. 625The noblest kind of retribution is not to become like your enemy.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 175An ape will be an ape, though clad in purple.
—Erasmus, 1511Just to fill the hour—that is happiness.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844The civilized man has built a coach but has lost the use of his feet.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841I am a man: I consider nothing human alien to me.
—Terence, 163 BC