Is all our fire of shipwreck wood?
—Robert Browning, 1862
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Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968One of the things men should most strive to do is win a good reputation and see that no one questions it.
—Juan Manuel, 1335Man is a tool-using animal. Nowhere do you find him without tools; without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
—Thomas Carlyle, 1836Every fool becomes a philosopher after ten days of rain.
—Clover Adams, 1882Whatsoever is, is in God.
—Benedict de Spinoza, 1677The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man, not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.
—Jean Genet, 1983I am not Athenian or Greek but a citizen of the world.
—Socrates, c. 420 BCWe are a commercial people. We cannot boast of our arts, our crafts, our cultivation; our boast is in the wealth we produce.
—Ida M. Tarbell, 1904Business is other people’s money.
—Delphine de Girardin, 1852Television is democracy at its ugliest.
—Paddy Chayefsky, 1976The fox knows lots of tricks, the hedgehog only one—but it’s a winner.
—Archilochus, c. 650 BCSpeak without regard for the consequences, and it is too late for silence when disaster strikes.
—Huan Kuan, 81 BC