Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.
—Aristotle, c. 350 BC
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Big head, little wit.
—French proverbChildhood has no forebodings—but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.
—George Eliot, 1860Whatever the pace of this technological revolution may be, the direction is clear: the lower rungs of the economic ladder are being lopped off.
—Bayard Rustin, 1965The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.
—Edward, Duke of Windsor, 1957The first requisite to happiness is that a man be born in a famous city.
—Euripides, c. 415 BCMost people who sneer at technology would starve to death if the engineering infrastructure were removed.
—Robert A. Heinlein, 1984Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
—Gore Vidal, 1973The sea is mother-death, and she is a mighty female, the one who wins, the one who sucks us all up.
—Anne Sexton, 1971If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper that did his job well.
—Martin Luther King Jr., 1954Whoever has died is freed from sin.
—St. Paul, c. 50The happiness of society is the end of government.
—John Adams, 1776Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
—Bertrand Russell, 1930