No time to marry, no time to settle down, I’m a young woman, and ain’t done runnin’ round.
—Bessie Smith, 1926
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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do.
—William James, 1902Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
—W.H. Auden, 1957Perish the universe, provided I have my revenge.
—Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac, 1654Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1839Unfortunately, humanitarianism has been the mark of an inhuman time.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1932A riot is at bottom the language of the unheard.
—Martin Luther King Jr., c. 1967What one man can invent another can discover.
—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1905It seems to me that we all look at nature too much and live with her too little.
—Oscar Wilde, 1897A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated has not the art of getting drunk.
—Samuel Johnson, 1779A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
—Herman Melville, 1851The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chawing a hunk of melon in the dust.
—Elizabeth Bowen, 1955The period is not very remote when the benefits of a liberal and free commerce will, pretty generally, succeed to the devastations and horrors of war.
—George Washington, 1786