What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
—Henry David Thoreau, 1850
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O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1599There was a great deal of drinking among us but little drunkenness. We all seemed to feel that Prohibition was a personal affront and that we had a moral duty to undermine it.
—Elizabeth Anderson, 1969Alas! We are ridiculous animals.
—Horace Walpole, 1777Appearances are a glimpse of the obscure.
—Anaxagoras, c. 450 BCIf the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet.
—Charles M. Allen, 1967The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.
—Luis Buñuel, 1983In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
—Colette, 1944All the married heiresses I have known have shipwrecked.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1880I have said this before, but I shall say it again and again and again: your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars.
—Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1940Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
—Joseph Stalin, 1934I care. I care about it all. It takes too much energy not to care.
—Lorraine Hansberry, 1965I am not Athenian or Greek but a citizen of the world.
—Socrates, c. 420 BC