I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.
—Xenocrates, c. 350 BC
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He alone who owns the youth gains the future.
—Adolf Hitler, 1935I have loved justice and hated iniquity: therefore I die in exile.
—Gregory VII, c. 1085Football causeth fighting, brawling, contention, quarrel picking, murder, homicide and great effusion of bloode, as daily experience teacheth.
—Philip Stubbes, 1583What water gives, water takes away.
—Portuguese proverbAll pain is one malady with many names.
—Antiphanes, c. 400 BCIf you are truly serious about preparing your child for the future, don’t teach him to subtract—teach him to deduct.
—Fran Lebowitz, 1981The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.
—Germaine Greer, 1970A human being must have occupation, if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.
—Dorothy L. Sayers, 1947A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
—James Joyce, 1922If I lose at play, I blaspheme, and if my fellow loses, he blasphemes. So that God is always sure to be the loser.
—John Donne, 1623Good 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 BCI used to think that everyone was just being funny. But now I don’t know. I mean, how can you tell?
—Andy Warhol, 1970