Animals are such agreeable friends—they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
—George Eliot, 1857
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Cows are among the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them—and, in short, I am not ashamed to profess a deep love for these quiet creatures.
—Thomas De Quincey, 1821Industrialism is the religion with “the machine” as the god going to answer all the prayers. Communism and capitalism were just competing sects.
—Dora Russell, 1983The law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.
—Voltairine de Cleyre, 1890God seems to have left the receiver off the hook, and time is running out.
—Arthur Koestler, 1967The oldest voice in the world is the wind.
—Donald Culross Peattie, 1950In times of pestilence, gaiety and joyousness are most profitable.
—Jacme d’Agramont, 1348Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
—James Baldwin, 1961Politics is the art of the possible.
—Otto von Bismarck, 1867The sole business of a seaman onshore who has to go to sea again is to take as much pleasure as he can.
—Leigh Hunt, 1820I can’t see (or feel) the conflict between love and religion. To me they’re the same thing.
—Elizabeth Bowen, c. 1970Modesty is a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1615To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891