It is not my design to drink or sleep; my design is to make what haste I can to be gone.
—Oliver Cromwell, 1658
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A self-made man is one who believes in luck and sends his son to Oxford.
—Christina Stead, 1938We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
—D.H. Lawrence, 1928Honest commerce is the great civilizer. We exchange ideas when we exchange fabrics.
—Robert G. Ingersoll, 1882Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a centaur, a leopard, a wolf, or a bull?
—Aristophanes, 423 BCThe diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.
—Agnes Repplier, 1929The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.
—Edward, Duke of Windsor, 1957It is one thing to slander, another to accuse.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 56 BCLord, I do not ask that thou shouldst give me wealth; only show me where it is, and I will attend to the rest.
—Kate Douglas Wiggin, 1898Envy and hatred are apt to blind the eyes and render them unable to behold things as they are.
—Margaret of Valois, c. 1600Night affords the most convenient shade for works of darkness.
—John Taylor, 1750When nature is overriden, she takes her revenge.
—Marya Mannes, 1958Who draws his sword against his prince must throw away the scabbard.
—James Howell, 1659