Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations—wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.
—Edmund Burke, 1795
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Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
—William Jennings Bryan, 1899The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body.
—Anaïs Nin, 1935’Tis the sport to have the engineer / Hoist with his own petard.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1600Conservation is not merely a thing to be enshrined in outdoor museums, but a way of living on land.
—Aldo Leopold, 1933Will and energy sometimes prove greater than either genius or talent or temperament.
—Isadora Duncan, c. 1902Revolution can never be forecast; it cannot be foretold; it comes of itself. Revolution is brewing and is bound to flare up.
—Vladimir Lenin, 1918Water its living strength first shows, / When obstacles its course oppose.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1815The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin.
—Heinrich Heine, 1827I ride rough waters and shall sink with no one to save me.
—Virginia Woolf, 1931In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1878“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
—George Eliot, 1866Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets.
—Andy Warhol, 1975