Today’s friend may be tomorrow’s foe.
—Sophocles, 440 BC
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The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.
—Edward VIII, 1957Unexemplary words and unfounded doctrines are avoided by the noble person. Why utter them?
—Dong Zhongshu, c. 120 BCHealth care delivery is one of the tragedies still in America.
—Jewel Plummer Cobb, 1989The dead are often just as living to us as the living are, only we cannot get them to believe it. They can come to us, but till we die we cannot go to them. To be dead is to be unable to understand that one is alive.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1888All moanday, tearsday, wailsday, thumpsday, frightday, shatterday till the fear of the Law.
—James Joyce, 1939People are trapped in history, and history is trapped in them.
—James Baldwin, 1953Many need no other provocation to enmity than that they find themselves excelled.
—Samuel Johnson, 1751Exchange is no robbery.
—German proverbWe should have a great many fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
—John Locke, 1690We do not suffer by accident.
—Jane Austen, 1813Fire destroys that which feeds it.
—Simone Weil, c. 1940Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.
—Plautus, c. 200 BC