When one has a famishing thirst for happiness, one is apt to gulp down diversions wherever they are offered.
—Alice Hegan Rice, 1917
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Moderation in all things.
—Terence, 166 BCSecrets define us, they mark us, they set us apart from all the others. The secrets which we preserve provide a key to who we are, deep down.
—Nuruddin Farah, 1998Man’s capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man’s inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
—Reinhold Niebuhr, 1944God seems to have left the receiver off the hook, and time is running out.
—Arthur Koestler, 1967I have seen the science I worshipped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.
—Charles Lindbergh, 1948I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground.
—Edna St. Vincent Millay, 1928There must be quite a few things a hot bath won’t cure, but I don’t know many of them.
—Sylvia Plath, 1963In every human breast, God has implanted a principle, which we call love of freedom; it is impatient of oppression and pants for deliverance.
—Phillis Wheatley, 1774Do not ask me to be kind; just ask me to act as though I were.
—Jules Renard, 1898Rebellion is no less a sin than divination.
—Book of Samuel, c. 550 BCBig head, little wit.
—French proverbDemocracy produces both heroes and villains, but it differs from a fascist state in that it does not produce a hero who is a villain.
—Margaret Halsey, 1946