Quotes

To endeavor to forget anyone is a certain way of thinking of nothing else.

—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688

He knows the water best who has waded through it.

—Danish proverb

Two crimes undid me: a poem and a mistake.

—Ovid, 10

Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved.

—Iris Murdoch, 1974

It is better to live unknown to the law.

—Irish proverb

Every fool becomes a philosopher after ten days of rain.

—Clover Adams, 1882

The law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.

—Voltairine de Cleyre, 1890

There is no profit without another’s loss.

—Roman proverb

Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny, they have only shifted it to another shoulder.

—George Bernard Shaw, 1903

The play is the tragedy “Man,” And its hero the conqueror worm.

—Edgar Allan Poe, 1843

The whole secret of fencing consists but in two things, to give and not to receive.

—Molière, 1670

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing—the rest is mere sheep herding.

—Ezra Pound, 1934

The more laws, the more lawbreakers.

—Tao Te Ching, c. 500 BC

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