Memory is like the moon, which hath its new, its full, and its wane.
—Margaret Cavendish, 1655
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Home is the girl’s prison and the woman’s workhouse.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903As he brews, so shall he drink.
—Ben Jonson, 1598I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.
—Samuel Johnson, 1773The sadness of the end of a career of an older athlete, with the betrayal of his body, is mirrored in the rest of us. Consciously or not, we know: there, soon, go I.
—Ira Berkow, 1987It is one thing to slander, another to accuse.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 56 BCThe charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chawing a hunk of melon in the dust.
—Elizabeth Bowen, 1955Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there.
—Susanne K. Langer, 1942We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do.
—Barbara Ward, 1972The workers are the saviors of society, the redeemers of the race.
—Eugene V. Debs, 1905Out of the crooked timber of humanity no straight thing was ever made.
—Immanuel Kant, 1784The 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, 1970The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1615