The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other.
—Mario Puzo, 2001
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You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
—Joseph Conrad, 1900If they prescribe a lot of remedies for some sickness or other, it means that the sickness is incurable.
—Anton Chekhov, 1904Nothing but a permanent body can check the imprudence of democracy.
—Alexander Hamilton, 1787Without a decisive naval force, we can do nothing definitive, and with it, everything honorable and glorious.
—George Washington, 1781There must be quite a few things a hot bath won’t cure, but I don’t know many of them.
—Sylvia Plath, 1963Let my epitaph be, “Here lies Joseph, who failed in everything he undertook.”
—Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II, 1790A friend in power is a friend lost.
—Henry Adams, 1905There are people whom one loves immediately and forever. Even to know they are alive in the world with one is quite enough.
—Nancy Spain, 1956While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact.
—Andrea Dworkin, 1983In the society of men, the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not. Our social realities are so ugly if seen in the light of exiled truth, and beauty is almost no longer possible if it is not a lie.
—R.D. Laing, 1967Yes to a market economy, no to a market society.
—Lionel Jospin, 1998We must consider that we shall be a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us, so that if we deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause Him to withdraw His present help from us, we shall be made a story and a byword through the world.
—John Winthrop, 1630