It was lonesome, the leaving.
—Wetatonmi, c. 1877
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Every communist must grasp the truth: “Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.”
—Mao Zedong, 1938The character which results from wealth is that of a prosperous fool.
—Aristotle, c. 322 BCWe call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.
—Anna Sewell, 1877If a king loves music, there is little wrong in the land.
—Mencius, c. 330 BCThe belly is the teacher of the arts and bestower of invention.
—Persius, c. 55The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of a gun.
—P.G. Wodehouse, 1929Knowledge itself is power.
—Francis Bacon, 1597I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes.
—Maxine Hong Kingston, 1976We die of comfort and by conflict live.
—May Sarton, 1953A school without grades must have been concocted by someone who was drunk on nonalcoholic wine.
—Karl Kraus, 1909It is not too much to expect that our children will enjoy in their homes electrical energy too cheap to meter.
—Lewis Strauss, 1954Hang work! I wish that all the year were holiday; I am sure that Indolence—indefeasible Indolence—is the true state of man.
—Charles Lamb, 1805