The tune I remember, could I but keep the words.
—Virgil, 38 BC
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God is making commerce his missionary.
—Joseph Cook, c. 1877The fox knows lots of tricks, the hedgehog only one—but it’s a winner.
—Archilochus, c. 650 BCThe U.S. presidency is a Tudor monarchy plus telephones.
—Anthony Burgess, 1972I used to do drugs. I still do, but I used to, too.
—Mitch Hedberg, 1999Just to fill the hour—that is happiness.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891Unexemplary words and unfounded doctrines are avoided by the noble person. Why utter them?
—Dong Zhongshu, c. 120 BCThere never was a good war or a bad peace.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1773Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.
—Voltaire, 1769The universe is an object of thought at least as much as it is a means of satisfying needs.
—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1962Best is water.
—Pindar, 476 BCThe friend of all humanity is no friend to me.
—Molière, 1666