Let us make our own mistakes, but let us take comfort in the knowledge that they are our own mistakes.
—Tom Mboya, 1958
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Imitate the ass in his love to his master.
—St. John Chrysostom, c. 388Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.
—Paul Valéry, 1943A multitude of small delights constitute happiness.
—Charles Baudelaire, 1897To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the need for thought.
—Henri Poincaré, 1903Though the boys throw stones at frogs in sport, yet the frogs do not die in sport but in earnest.
—Bion of Smyrna, c. 100 BCCurse on all laws but those which love has made.
—Alexander Pope, 1717Keep away from physicians. It is all probing and guessing and pretending with them. They leave it to nature to cure in her own time, but they take the credit. As well as very fat fees.
—Anthony Burgess, 1964Educate people without religion and you make them but clever devils.
—Arthur Wellesley, c. 1830Good fortune is light as a feather, but nobody knows how to hold it up. Misfortune is heavy as the earth, but nobody knows how to stay out of its way.
—Zhuangzi, c. 300 BCThanks to the interstate highway system, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything.
—Charles Kuralt, c. 1980You cannot endow even the best machine with initiative; the jolliest steamroller will not plant flowers.
—Walter Lippmann, 1913Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.
—George Eliot, 1857