It is not right for a ruler who has the nation in his charge, a man with so much on his mind, to sleep all night.
—Homer, c. 750 BC
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All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.
—Havelock Ellis, 1921There is no happiness like that of a young couple in a little house they have built themselves in a place of beauty and solitude.
—Annie Proulx, 2008If people think Nature is their friend, then they sure don’t need an enemy.
—Kurt Vonnegut, 1988There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.
—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1898Money, not morality, is the principle of commercial nations.
—Thomas JeffersonFamous, adj. Conspicuously miserable.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
—Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1851Only the little people pay taxes.
—Leona Helmsley, 1989A dead enemy always smells good.
—Aulus Vitellius, 69I have been a stranger here in my own land all my life.
—Sophocles, c. 441 BCWorry over what has not occurred is a serious malady.
—Solomon ibn Gabirol, 1050An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
—George Eliot, 1866