In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: they must be fit for it; they must not do too much of it; and they must have a sense of success in it.
—John Ruskin, 1850
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Many are the wonders of the world, and none so wonderful as man.
—Sophocles, c. 441 BCOne’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
—George Santayana, c. 1914I had rather be in a state of misery and envied for my supposed happiness than in a state of happiness and pitied for my supposed misery.
—Elizabeth Inchbald, 1793Revolutions never go backward.
—Thomas Skidmore, 1829Jokes are grievances.
—Marshall McLuhan, 1969The mere existence of nuclear weapons by the thousands is an incontrovertible sign of human insanity.
—Isaac Asimov, 1988A friend who is very near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.
—George Ade, 1902The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a star.
—Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, 1825Everyone who is sick is someone else’s patient zero.
—Leslie Jamison, 2020Better free in a strange land than a slave at home.
—German proverbLet me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world: it gives women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance. I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel. The picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.
—Susan B. Anthony, 1896The future is no more uncertain than the present.
—Walt Whitman, 1856