Hygienic law, like martial law, supersedes rights in crises.
—Samuel Hopkins Adams, 1913
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No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in vain tried to put into our heads before.
—Jonathan Swift, 1706Think rich. Look poor.
—Andy Warhol, 1975This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.
—Abraham Lincoln, 1861Revolution begins in putting on bright colors.
—Tennessee Williams, 1944I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?
—Lord Byron, 1813Fire destroys that which feeds it.
—Simone Weil, c. 1940The things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist.
—Ernest Hemingway, 1929No poems can please long, nor live, that are written by water drinkers.
—Horace, 35 BCDeath keeps no calendar.
—George Herbert, 1640There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
—Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, 1989Sometime they’ll give a war and nobody will come.
—Carl Sandburg, 1936The first duty of a good inquisitor is to suspect especially those who seem sincere to him.
—Umberto Eco, 1980