The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.
—Hermann Hesse, 1950
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The vice presidency isn’t worth a pitcher of warm piss.
—John Nance Garner, c. 1967Football causeth fighting, brawling, contention, quarrel picking, murder, homicide and great effusion of bloode, as daily experience teacheth.
—Philip Stubbes, 1583Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.
—Wendell Phillips, 1859A garden must be looked into, and dressed as the body.
—George Herbert, 1640A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.
—Ralph Nader, 2000We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison.
—Marcel Proust, c. 1922It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.
—Friedrich Schiller, 1781Every revolution by force only puts more violent means of enslavement into the hands of the persons in power.
—Leo Tolstoy, 1893The life of a sailor is very unhealthy.
—Francis Galton, 1883I’ve been bathing in the poem / Of star-infused and milky sea / Devouring the azure greens.
—Arthur Rimbaud, 1871A criminal may improve and become a decent member of society. A foreigner cannot improve. Once a foreigner, always a foreigner. There is no way out for him.
—George Mikes, 1946Laughter always arises from a gaiety of disposition, absolutely incompatible with contempt and indignation.
—Voltaire, 1736