Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of — Aristóteles
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.
Adam Smith
Nothing is built on stone all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
Jorge Luis Borges
Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past. Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) pt. 1, ch. 3
George Orwell
The art of government is the organization of idolatry.
George Bernard Shaw