Enemies are so stimulating.
—Katharine Hepburn, 1969
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Do you not see how God is praised by those in the heavens and those on earth? The very birds praised Him as they wing their way.
—The Qur’an, c. 620Let the people think they govern, and they will be governed.
—William Penn, 1693What timid man does not avoid contact with the sick, fearing lest he contract a disease so near?
—Ovid, c. 10Language is the archives of history.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844Men, my dear, are very queer animals—a mixture of horse nervousness, ass stubbornness, and camel malice.
—T. H. Huxley, 1895Knowledge is an ancient error reflecting on its youth.
—Francis Picabia, 1949The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletariat to the level of bourgeois stupidity.
—Gustave Flaubert, 1871If you would help another man, you must do so in minute particulars.
—William Blake, 1804It would be madness, and inconsistency, to suppose that things which have never yet been performed can be performed without employing some hitherto untried means.
—Francis Bacon, 1620Seaward ho! Hang the treasure! It’s the glory of the sea that has turned my head.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1883The power which the sea requires in the sailor makes a man of him very fast, and the change of shores and population clears his head of much nonsense of his wigwam.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1870A crust of bread and a corner to sleep in / A minute to smile and an hour to weep in.
—Paul Laurence Dunbar, 1895