No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
—Abraham Lincoln
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Where it is a duty to worship the sun, it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.
—John Morley, 1872If a man will observe as he walks the streets, I believe he will find the merriest countenances in mourning coaches.
—Jonathan Swift, 1706The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
—Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1851Life isn’t all beer and skittles, but beer and skittles, or something better of the same sort, must form a good part of every Englishman’s education.
—Thomas Hughes, 1857The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.
—Vladimir Nabokov, 1941Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.
—Aristotle, c. 350 BCTechnology is so much fun, but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.
—Daniel Boorstin, 1978Good fortune turns aside destruction by a great god.
—Instructions of Ankhsheshonqy, c. 100 BCFreedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.
—Rosa Luxemburg, 1918Nature never jests.
—Albrecht von Haller, 1751The gods play games with men as balls.
—Plautus, c. 200 BCLet the French but have England, and they won’t want to conquer it.
—Horace Walpole, 1745