The three little sentences that will get you through life. Number 1: Cover for me. Number 2: Oh, good idea, Boss! Number 3: It was like that when I got here.
—Nell Scovell, 1991
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Strangers are an endangered species.
—Adrienne Rich, 1980No time to marry, no time to settle down, I’m a young woman, and ain’t done runnin’ round.
—Bessie Smith, 1926To know the abyss of the darkness and not to fear it, to entrust oneself to it and whatever may arise from it—what greater gift?
—Ursula K. Le Guin, 1975Where shall I, of wandering weary, find my resting place at last?
—Heinrich Heine, 1827The fact is certain because it is impossible.
—Tertullian, c. 200Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.
—Sigmund Freud, 1930My stern chase after time is, to borrow a simile from Tom Paine, like the race of a man with a wooden leg after a horse.
—John Quincy Adams, 1844Plough deep while sluggards sleep.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1758What experience and history teach is this—that nations and governments have never learned anything from history or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it.
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, 1830The fear of war is worse than war itself.
—Seneca, c. 50Shame on the soul, to falter on the road of life while the body still perseveres.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170Revolution can never be forecast; it cannot be foretold; it comes of itself. Revolution is brewing and is bound to flare up.
—Vladimir Lenin, 1918