There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.
—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1898
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He who would have clear water should go to the fountainhead.
—Italian proverbThere is no method by which men can be both free and equal.
—Walter Bagehot, 1863Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.
—Walter Scott, 1823Envy and hatred are apt to blind the eyes and render them unable to behold things as they are.
—Margaret of Valois, c. 1600He alone who owns the youth gains the future.
—Adolf Hitler, 1935I don’t believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
—Woody Allen, 1971Time is a veil interposed between God and ourselves, as our eyelid is between our eye and the light.
—François-René de Chateaubriand, c. 1820When the missionaries first came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said, “Let us pray.” We closed our eyes. When we opened them, we had the Bible and they had the land.
—Desmond Tutu, 1984What one man can invent another can discover.
—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1905Curses are like young chickens, they always come home to roost.
—Robert Southey, 1809Can you draw sweet water from a foul well?
—Brooks Atkinson, 1940Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame—to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a hell!
—Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1843