Sometime they’ll give a war and nobody will come.
—Carl Sandburg, 1936
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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
—H.G. Wells, 1905Rivalry adds so much to the charms of one’s conquests.
—Louisa May Alcott, 1866Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny, they have only shifted it to another shoulder.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903It is impossible to tell which of the two dispositions we find in men is more harmful in a republic, that which seeks to maintain an established position or that which has none but seeks to acquire it.
—Niccolò Machiavelli, c. 1515The most fitting occupation for a civilized man is to do nothing.
—Théophile Gautier, c. 1835Abstainer, n. A weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906There will always be a lost dog somewhere that will prevent me from being happy.
—Jean Anouilh, 1934Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
—W.H. Auden, 1957Ocean. A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man—who has no gills.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906Music is our myth of the inner life.
—Susanne K. Langer, 1942To cast aside obedience, and by popular violence to incite revolt, is treason, not against man only, but against God.
—Pope Leo XIII, 1885There are many civil questions that arise between individuals in which it is not so important the controversy be settled one way or another as that it be settled.
—William Howard Taft, 1921