All men recognize the right of revolution, that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable.
—Henry David Thoreau, 1849
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Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
—E.B. White, 1944The mind of man is capable of anything.
—Guy de Maupassant, 1884Animals are such agreeable friends—they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
—George Eliot, 1857Give me chastity and continence, but not just now.
—Saint Augustine, 397Jazz is the result of the energy stored up in America.
—George Gershwin, 1933If both what is before and what is after are in this same “now,” things which happened ten thousand years ago would be simultaneous with what has happened today, and nothing would be before or after anything else.
—Aristotle, c. 330 BCGive us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with the necessities.
—John Lothrop Motley, 1858Friendship is a plant that loves the sun—thrives ill under clouds.
—Bronson Alcott, 1872Most 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, 1834I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king.
—Elizabeth I, 1588To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.
—Alvin Toffler, 1970