I look for the end of the future, but it never ceases to arrive.
—Zhuangzi, c. 325 BC
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I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool than I am.
—Alice James, 1889Life is no way to treat an animal.
—Kurt Vonnegut, 2005The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative on the day after the revolution.
—Hannah Arendt, 1970Let the young know they will never find a more interesting, more instructive book than the patient himself.
—Giorgio Baglivi, c. 1696All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy.
—Al Smith, 1933Just to fill the hour—that is happiness.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
—Joseph Stalin, 1934On the loftiest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own rump.
—Michel de Montaigne, 1580Curse on all laws but those which love has made.
—Alexander Pope, 1717A mind lively and at ease can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.
—Jane Austen, 1815Enemies to me are the sauce piquant to my dish of life.
—Elsa Maxwell, 1955There is no method by which men can be both free and equal.
—Walter Bagehot, 1863