Ah, there are no children nowadays.
—Molière, 1673
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To be turned from one’s course by men’s opinions, by blame, and by misrepresentation shows a man unfit to hold office.
—Quintus Fabius Maximus, c. 203 BCNationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.
—Albert Einstein, 1929Nothing but a permanent body can check the imprudence of democracy.
—Alexander Hamilton, 1787Conjecturing a Climate
Of unsuspended Suns –
Adds poignancy to Winter
Happiness is no laughing matter.
—Richard Whately, 1843It is the little causes, long continued, which are considered as bringing about the greatest changes of the earth.
—James Hutton, 1795I quit life as from an inn, not as from a home.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 44 BCDrugs, cataplasms, and whiskey are stupid substitutes for the dignity and potency of divine mind and its efficacy to heal.
—Mary Baker Eddy, 1908Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but most important, it finds homes for us everywhere.
—Hazel Rochman, 1995Anyone who has a child should train him to be either a physicist or a ballet dancer. Then he’ll escape.
—W.H. Auden, 1947Lord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
—Jonathan Swift, 1738The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
—Henry Fielding, 1730