Law makes long spokes of the short stakes of men.
—William Empson, 1928
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God is a complex of ideas formed by the tribe, the nation, and humanity, which awake and organize social feelings and aim to link the individual to society and to bridle the zoological individualism.
—Maxim Gorky, 1913Make human nature your study wherever you reside—whatever the religion or the complexion, study their hearts.
—Ignatius Sancho, 1778There is only one antidote to mental suffering and that is physical pain.
—Karl Marx, 1860The three little sentences that will get you through life. Number 1: Cover for me. Number 2: Oh, good idea, Boss! Number 3: It was like that when I got here.
—Nell Scovell, 1991If there is a word in the dictionary under any letter from A to Z that I abominate, it is energy.
—Charles Dickens, 1865I have loved the stars too truly to be fearful of the night.
—Sarah Williams, 1868All of life is a foreign country.
—Jack Kerouac, 1949Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1839Attacks on me will do no harm, and silent contempt is the best answer to them.
—James Monroe, 1808The man in constant fear is every day condemned.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BCWhat delight can there be, and not rather displeasure, in hearing the barking and howling of dogs? Or what greater pleasure is there to be felt when a dog followeth a hare than when a dog followeth a dog?
—Thomas More, 1516Those who cross the seas change their climate but not their character.
—Roman proverb