Good men must not obey the laws too well.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844
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It is no longer a government of the people, by the people, and for the people, but a government of Wall Street, by Wall Street, and for Wall Street.
—Mary Lease, c. 1890People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence, and they think they have seen something.
—Søren Kierkegaard, 1843We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea—whether it is to sail or to watch it—we are going back whence we came.
—John F. Kennedy, 1962All the daughters of music shall be brought low.
—Ecclesiastes, c. 400 BCTrade is a social act.
—John Stuart Mill, 1859People living deeply have no fear of death.
—Anaïs Nin, 1935Curses are like young chickens, they always come home to roost.
—Robert Southey, 1809Avoid the talk of men. For talk is mischievous, light, and easily raised, but hard to bear and difficult to be rid of. Talk never wholly dies away when many people voice her: even talk is in some ways divine.
—Hesiod, c. 700 BCMuch money makes a country poor, for it sets a dearer price on every thing.
—George Herbert, 1640A garden must be looked into, and dressed as the body.
—George Herbert, 1640The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletariat to the level of bourgeois stupidity.
—Gustave Flaubert, 1871Imagination continually outruns the creature it inhabits.
—Katherine Anne Porter, 1949