Democracy produces both heroes and villains, but it differs from a fascist state in that it does not produce a hero who is a villain.
—Margaret Halsey, 1946
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New things are always ugly.
—Willa Cather, 1921I’ve been on more laps than a napkin.
—Mae WestKeep running after a dog, and he will never bite you.
—François Rabelais, 1535Life is a farce, and should not end with a mourning scene.
—Horace Walpole, 1784I don’t believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.
—Coretta Scott King, 1994Diseases, at least many of them, are like human beings. They are born, they flourish, and they die.
—David Riesman, 1937The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases. We go on a journey chiefly to be free of all impediments and of all inconveniences—to leave ourselves behind, much more to get rid of others.
—William Hazlitt, 1822As he brews, so shall he drink.
—Ben Jonson, 1598God is alive. Magic is afoot.
—Leonard Cohen, 1966Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1610After all, crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor.
—John Huston, 1950I have learned much from disease which life could never have taught me anywhere else.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1830