The king times are fast finishing. There will be blood shed like water, and tears like mist; but the peoples will conquer in the end.
—Lord Byron, 1821
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It hurts to watch the fluency of a body acclimated to its shackling.
—Leslie Jamison, 2014The greatest veneration one can show the law is to keep a watch on it.
—Nadine Gordimer, 1971A fair complexion is unbecoming to a sailor: he ought to be swarthy from the waters of the sea and the rays of the sun.
—Ovid, c. 1 BCI have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.
—Xenocrates, c. 350 BCGrown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, c. 1940Happiness is no laughing matter.
—Richard Whately, 1843I quit life as from an inn, not as from a home.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 44 BCEverybody says it; and what everybody says must be true.
—James Fenimore Cooper, 1844For, say they, when cruising in an empty ship, if you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
—Herman Melville, 1851Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851The best way to fill time is to waste it.
—Marguerite Duras, 1987Democracy, like the human organism, carries within it the seed of its own destruction.
—Veronica Wedgwood, 1946