I’ve never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It’s probably because they have forgotten their own.
—Margaret Atwood, 1976
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Can you take your country with you on the soles of your shoes?
—Georg Büchner, 1835A college degree is a social certificate, not a proof of competence.
—Elbert Hubbard, 1911The young leading the young is like the blind leading the blind.
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 1747The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin.
—Heinrich Heine, 1827Honesty, for me, is usually the worst policy imaginable.
—Patricia Highsmith, 1960It is so difficult not to become vain about one’s own good luck.
—Simone de Beauvoir, 1963Those who know the joys and miseries of celebrities when they have passed the age of forty know how to defend themselves.
—Sarah Bernhardt, 1904Words pay no debts.
—William Shakespeare, 1601There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1790To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.
—Cyril Connolly, 1944How sad a sight is human happiness to those whose thoughts can pierce beyond an hour!
—Edward Young, 1741