There never was a good war or a bad peace.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1773
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I don’t believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.
—Coretta Scott King, 1994A miracle entails a degree of irrationality—not because it shocks reason, but because it makes no appeal to it.
—Emmanuel Lévinas, 1952The future comes like an unwelcome guest.
—Edmund Gosse, 1873There is only one antidote to mental suffering and that is physical pain.
—Karl Marx, 1860When nature is overriden, she takes her revenge.
—Marya Mannes, 1958The 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, 1987Nobody works as hard for his money as the man who marries it.
—Kin HubbardWritten laws are like spiderwebs: they will catch, it is true, the weak and poor but would be torn in pieces by the rich and powerful.
—Anacharsis, c. 550 BCDespotism subjects a nation to one tyrant—democracy to many.
—Marguerite Gardiner, 1839An old man is twice a child, and so is a drunken man.
—Plato, c. 360 BCUnfortunately, humanitarianism has been the mark of an inhuman time.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1932Those who know the joys and miseries of celebrities when they have passed the age of forty know how to defend themselves.
—Sarah Bernhardt, 1904