The land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.
—The Bible
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Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but most important, it finds homes for us everywhere.
—Hazel Rochman, 1995I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1789Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1871No time to marry, no time to settle down, I’m a young woman, and ain’t done runnin’ round.
—Bessie Smith, 1926Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don’t take it too seriously.
—Henry Miller, 1945The law looks at no one’s face.
—Gabriel Okara, 1964It would be madness, and inconsistency, to suppose that things which have never yet been performed can be performed without employing some hitherto untried means.
—Francis Bacon, 1620Nothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self; for what we wish, that we readily believe.
—Demosthenes, 349 BCLord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
—Jonathan Swift, 1738Men worry over the great number of diseases, while doctors worry over the scarcity of effective remedies.
—Bian Qiao, c. 500 BCDarkness endows the small and ordinary ones among mankind with poetical power.
—Thomas Hardy, 1874A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast.
—The Bible