You should never have your best trousers on when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.
—Henrik Ibsen, 1882
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The traveler with nothing on him sings in the robber’s face.
—Juvenal, c. 125Strangers are an endangered species.
—Adrienne Rich, 1980To escape its wretched lot, the populace has three ways, two imaginary and one real. The first two are the rum shop and the church; the third is the social revolution.
—Mikhail Bakunin, 1871Language is the house of being. In its home human beings dwell. Those who think and those who create with words are the guardians of this home.
—Martin Heidegger, 1949Hunting is all that’s worth living for—all time is lost what is not spent in hunting—it is like the air we breathe—if we have it not we die—it’s the sport of kings, the image of war without its guilt.
—Robert Smith Surtees, 1843A mind lively and at ease can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.
—Jane Austen, 1815Avoid the law—the first loss is generally the least.
—Hannah Farnham Sawyer Lee, 1844Shame on the soul, to falter on the road of life while the body still perseveres.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170I prefer liberty with unquiet to slavery with quiet.
—Sallust, c. 35 BCWe need strength, we need energy, we need quickness, and we need brain in this country to turn it around.
—Donald Trump, 2015One’s friends are divided into two classes, those one knows because one must and those one knows because one mustn’t.
—Sybil Taylor, 1922The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1908