The bathing was so delightful this morning, and Molly so pressing with me to enjoy myself, that I believe I stayed in rather too long, as since the middle of the day I have felt unreasonably tired. I shall be more careful another time, and shall not bathe tomorrow as I had before intended.
—Jane Austen, 1804
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Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
—Frank Zappa, c. 1975How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.
—Søren Kierkegaard, 1843It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard for their own interest.
—Adam Smith, 1776War has silenced all laws.
—Lucan, c. 65Treaties, you see, are like girls and roses: they last while they last.
—Charles de Gaulle, 1963The life of the dead consists in the recollection cherished of them by the living.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 43 BCThe history of the land has been written very largely in water.
—John Hodgdon Bradley Jr., 1935A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
—Ouida, 1880All our enemies are mortal.
—Paul Valéry, 1942Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1871I care. I care about it all. It takes too much energy not to care.
—Lorraine Hansberry, 1965Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god.
—Jean Rostand, 1939