The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended—and not to take a hint when a hint isn’t intended.
—Robert Frost, 1939
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Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.
—Miguel de Unamuno, 1913Night affords the most convenient shade for works of darkness.
—John Taylor, 1750Trade is a social act.
—John Stuart Mill, 1859Money, not morality, is the principle of commercial nations.
—Thomas JeffersonMemory is more indelible than ink.
—Anita Loos, 1974Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.
—Norman Douglas, 1917You must not grow used to making money out of everything. One sees more people ruined than one has seen preserved by shameful gains.
—Sophocles, c. 442 BCOnce something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it.
—Robert Wilson, 1991In tampering with the earth, we tamper with a mystery.
—Jonathan Schell, 2000Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906The mind of man is capable of anything.
—Guy de Maupassant, 1884The sadness of the end of a career of an older athlete, with the betrayal of his body, is mirrored in the rest of us. Consciously or not, we know: there, soon, go I.
—Ira Berkow, 1987