Fortune resists half-hearted prayers.
—Ovid, 8
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Night is torment. That is why people go to sleep. To avoid clear sight and torment.
—Dorothy M. Richardson, 1923Money, not morality, is the principle of commercial nations.
—Thomas JeffersonToday’s city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.
—Martin Oppenheimer, 1969All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.
—Oscar Wilde, 1895Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
—John F. Kennedy, 1962Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
—Theodore Roosevelt, 1903There are truths that prove their discoverers witless.
—Karl Kraus, 1909Most authors seek fame, but I seek for justice—a holier impulse than ever entered into the ambitious struggles of the votaries of that fickle, flirting goddess.
—Davy Crockett, 1834Seamen are the nearest to death and the furthest from God.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732Our crime against criminals is that we treat them as villains.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1898The beginning of health lies in knowing the disease.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1615To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the need for thought.
—Henri Poincaré, 1903