Quotes

Even though counting heads is not an ideal way to govern, at least it is better than breaking them.

—Learned Hand, 1932

Little folks become their little fate.

—Horace, c. 20 BC

War is sweet to those who don’t know it.

—Erasmus, 1508

God is alive. Magic is afoot.

—Leonard Cohen, 1966

Of my friends, I am the only one I have left.

—Terence, 161 BC

All art is a revolt against man’s fate.

—André Malraux, 1951

What are men anyway but balloons on legs, a lot of blown-up bladders?

—Gaius Petronius Arbiter, c. 64

Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.

—Alexander Pope, 1733

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

—Bob Dylan, 1966

The land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.

—The Bible

The United States has virtually set up an empire on impounded and redistributed water.

—Charles P. Berkey, 1946

I’m at an age when my back goes out more than I do.

—Phyllis Diller, 1981

Laughter almost ever cometh of things most disproportioned to ourselves and nature. Laughter hath only a scornful tickling.

—Philip Sidney, 1582

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