Jesters do oft prove prophets.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1605
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An unjust law is no law at all.
—Saint Augustine, 395Art is a jealous mistress, and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture, or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1860And what will history say of me a thousand years hence?
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 59 BCPeople revere the Constitution yet know so little about it—and that goes for some of my fellow senators.
—Robert Byrd, 2005Reputation, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others.
—Douglas Jerrold, 1840The most hateful torment for men is to have knowledge of everything but power over nothing.
—Herodotus, c. 425 BCI’ve dreamed enough to have a drink.
—François Rabelais, 1546The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.
—Edward VIII, 1957A monument is money wasted. My memory will live on if my life has deserved it.
—Pliny the Younger, c. 109There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching toward him and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange.
—Elias Canetti, 1960I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. War is hell.
—William Tecumseh Sherman, 1879He who sings frightens away his ills.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605