A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903
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The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull.
—Dean Acheson, 1970Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1755We 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, 1904Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
—Anatole France, 1881There is not so contemptible a plant or animal that does not confound the most enlarged understanding.
—John Locke, 1689Who sleepeth with dogs shall rise with fleas.
—John Florio, 1578Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society.
—Mark Twain, 1873The life of the dead consists in the recollection cherished of them by the living.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 43 BCI have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.
—Michelangelo Antonioni, 1967It is wretched business to be digging a well just as you’re dying of thirst.
—Plautus, c. 193 BCIt is not a case we are treating; it is a living, palpitating, alas, too often suffering fellow creature.
—John Brown, 1904I curse the night, yet doth from day me hide.
—William Drummond, 1616