War is a blessing compared with national degradation.
Andrew Jackson Also found in:
Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
Honore de Balzac
I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.
George Eliot
The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.
Samuel Johnson
We have escapist fiction so why not escapist biography?
John Kenneth Galbraith
We interest others by the misfortune we spread around us.
Emile M. Cioran
In real life I assure you there is no such thing as algebra.
Fran Lebowitz Also found in:
Look for me in the whirlwind or the storm.
Marcus Garvey
Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.
Benjamin Franklin Also found in:
Drive your cart and your plow over the bones of the dead.
William Blake
