Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.
—Herbert Hoover, 1936
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I count myself in nothing else so happy / As in a soul remembering my good friends.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1595An ape will be an ape, though clad in purple.
—Erasmus, 1511I have a terrible memory; I never forget a thing.
—Edith Konecky, 1976And to our age’s drowsy blood / Still shouts the inspiring sea.
—James Russell Lowell, 1848Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be.
—William Hazlitt, 1819Some things are privileged from jest—namely, religion, matters of state, great persons, all men’s present business of importance, and any case that deserves pity.
—Francis Bacon, 1597I do desire we may be better strangers.
—William Shakespeare, 1600If you can’t go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.
—Margaret Atwood, 2005Those who know the joys and miseries of celebrities when they have passed the age of forty know how to defend themselves.
—Sarah Bernhardt, 1904Politics is the art of the possible.
—Otto von Bismarck, 1867Do we want laurels for ourselves most, / Or most that no one else shall have any?
—Amy Lowell, 1922Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
—H.G. Wells, 1920