Some folks want their luck buttered.
—Thomas Hardy, 1886
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Some nights are like honey—and some like wine—and some like wormwood.
—L.M. Montgomery, 1927And your very flesh shall be a great poem.
—Walt Whitman, 1855You furnish the pictures, and I’ll furnish the war.
—William Randolph Hearst, 1898The 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, 1987You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation.
—Billie Holiday, 1956I think heaven will not be as good as earth, unless it bring with it that sweet power to remember, which is the staple of heaven here.
—Emily Dickinson, 1879Sometime they’ll give a war and nobody will come.
—Carl Sandburg, 1936Whatever the apparent cause of any riots may be, the real one is always want of happiness.
—Thomas Paine, 1792An irreligious man is not one who denies the gods of the majority, but one who applies to the gods the opinions of the majority. For what most men say about the gods are not ideas derived from sensation, but false opinions, according to which the greatest evils come to the wicked, and the greatest blessings come to the good from the gods.
—Epicurus, c. 250 BCPeople will never fight for your freedom if you have not given evidence that you are prepared to fight for it yourself.
—Bayard Rustin, 1986We are as near to heaven by sea as by land!
—Humphrey Gilbert, 1583I have always been of the mind that in a democracy, manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie knife.
—James Russell Lowell, 1873