Night is torment. That is why people go to sleep. To avoid clear sight and torment.
—Dorothy M. Richardson, 1923
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Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.
—Marlene Dietrich, 1962We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things, and once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1774There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink.
—Booth Tarkington, 1914It is impossible to tell which of the two dispositions we find in men is more harmful in a republic, that which seeks to maintain an established position or that which has none but seeks to acquire it.
—Niccolò Machiavelli, c. 1515I want to be the white man’s brother, not his brother-in-law.
—Martin Luther King Jr., 1962You have all the characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
—Aristophanes, c. 424 BCI am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.
—Samuel Johnson, 1773Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other both in mind and body, to try the manners of different nations, to hear the chimes at midnight.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1881Too often, where we need water we find guns.
—Ban Ki-moon, 2008Our allotted time is the passing of a shadow.
—Book of Wisdom, c. 100 BCThere are truths that prove their discoverers witless.
—Karl Kraus, 1909Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
—Oscar Wilde, 1893