I doubt that we have any right to pity the dead for their own sakes.
—Lord Byron, 1817
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Unfortunately, humanitarianism has been the mark of an inhuman time.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1932Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one’s own Trojan horse.
—Rebecca West, 1959Civilization, a much-abused word, stands for a high matter quite apart from telephones and electric lights.
—Edith Hamilton, 1930If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar, and will not leave it, why keep the door so very carefully shut?
—Olive Schreiner, 1883The 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, 1991I began revolution with eighty-two men. If I had to do it again, I do it with ten or fifteen and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.
—Fidel Castro, 1959
Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.
—Kate Moss, 2009The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.
—Agnes Repplier, 1929A monument is money wasted. My memory will live on if my life has deserved it.
—Pliny the Younger, c. 109A dissolute and intemperate youth hands down the body to old age in a worn-out state.
—Cicero, 44 BCI do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
—Galileo Galilei, 1615Music is our myth of the inner life.
—Susanne K. Langer, 1942