The deed is everything, the glory naught.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1832
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No one wins a quarrel by quarreling.
—German proverbLaw makes long spokes of the short stakes of men.
—William Empson, 1928In the society of men, the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not. Our social realities are so ugly if seen in the light of exiled truth, and beauty is almost no longer possible if it is not a lie.
—R.D. Laing, 1967Nothing puzzles me more than time and space, and yet nothing puzzles me less, for I never think about them.
—Charles Lamb, 1810Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
—Herman Melville, 1851People revere the Constitution yet know so little about it—and that goes for some of my fellow senators.
—Robert Byrd, 2005I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie.
—H. Rap Brown, 1967I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1886A garden must be looked into, and dressed as the body.
—George Herbert, 1640Why is not a rat as good as a rabbit? Why should men eat shrimps and neglect cockroaches?
—Henry Ward Beecher, 1862Attacks on me will do no harm, and silent contempt is the best answer to them.
—James Monroe, 1808A hick town is one where there is no place to go where you shouldn’t go.
—Alexander Woollcott, c. 1935