The only evidence, so far as I know, about another life is, first, that we have no evidence; and, secondly, that we are rather sorry that we have not, and wish we had.
—Robert G. Ingersoll, 1879
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Of troubles none is greater than to be robbed of one’s native land.
—Euripides, 431 BCAs bad a dresser as I am, anything beats being judged by my character.
—David Sedaris, 1997How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort in a hospital.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1857Those who are awake have a world that is one and common, but each of those who are asleep turns aside into his own particular world.
—Heraclitus, c. 500 BCImagination continually outruns the creature it inhabits.
—Katherine Anne Porter, 1949If there was ever a just war since the world began, it is this in which America is now engaged.
—Thomas Paine, 1778Do we want laurels for ourselves most, / Or most that no one else shall have any?
—Amy Lowell, 1922War to the castles; peace to the cottages.
—Nicolas Chamfort, 1790Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with the necessities.
—John Lothrop Motley, 1858As to the sea itself, love it you cannot. Why should you? I will never believe again the sea was ever loved by anyone whose life was married to it. It is the creation of omnipotence, which is not of humankind and understandable, and so the springs of its behavior are hidden.
—H.M. Tomlinson, 1912Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1871Punishment is a sort of medicine.
—Aristotle, c. 340 BC