Not a change for the better in our human housekeeping has ever taken place that wise and good men have not opposed it—have not prophesied that the world would wake up to find its throat cut in consequence.
—James Russell Lowell, 1884
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As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
—Pope John Paul II, 1986There are times when reality becomes too complex for oral communication. But legend gives it a form by which it pervades the whole world.
—Jean-Luc Godard, 1965Time robs us of all, even of memory.
—Virgil, c. 40 BCDisobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made—through disobedience and through rebellion.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891What is the city but the people?
—William Shakespeare, 1608There is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship.
—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 1943One who is frivolous all day will never establish a household.
—Ptahhotep, c. 2400 BCWhat experience and history teach is this—that nations and governments have never learned anything from history or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it.
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, 1830Shame on the soul, to falter on the road of life while the body still perseveres.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170There is only one antidote to mental suffering and that is physical pain.
—Karl Marx, 1860Jazz is the result of the energy stored up in America.
—George Gershwin, 1933There is no foreign land; it is the traveler only that is foreign.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1883