Most authors seek fame, but I seek for justice—a holier impulse than ever entered into the ambitious struggles of the votaries of that fickle, flirting goddess.
—Davy Crockett, 1834
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One who is frivolous all day will never establish a household.
—Ptahhotep, c. 2400 BCAn ape will be an ape, though clad in purple.
—Erasmus, 1511Friend! It is a common word, often lightly used. Like other good and beautiful things, it may be tarnished by careless handling.
—Harriet Jacobs, 1861Style is the image of character.
—Edward Gibbon, c. 1789A maid that laughs is half taken.
—John Ray, 1670Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
—Francis Bacon, 1625What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.
—Joseph Addison, 1711Being thus arrived in good harbor, and brought safe to land, they fell upon their knees and blessed the God of heaven who had brought them over the vast and furious ocean and delivered them from all the perils and miseries thereof, again to set their feet on the firm and stale earth, their proper element.
—William Bradford, 1630Do not fear the clatter of wheels, the bumps and slops in corridors. It is only turbulence.
—Romalyn Ante, 2020Anything one is remembering is a repetition, but existing as a human being that is being, listening, and hearing is never repetition.
—Gertrude Stein, 1935Fear is the foundation of most governments.
—John Adams, 1776Speak and speed; the close mouth catches no flies.
—Benjamin Franklin, c. 1732