One thing alone not even God can do: to make undone whatever has been done.
—Aristotle, c. 350 BC
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If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.
—Henry Clay, 1812One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
—E.B. White, 1958There’s hope a great man’s memory may outlive his life half a year.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1600Just to fill the hour—that is happiness.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1790It is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.
—Charlotte Brontë, 1847Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
—Oscar Wilde, 1890Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.
—George W. Bush, 2004Nothing is hidden from the eyes of the observing world.
—Aleksandr Pushkin, 1837Friends are fictions founded on some single momentary experience.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1864People who’ve drunk neat wine don’t care a damn.
—Hipponax, c. 550 BCDo you suppose it possible to know democracy without knowing the people?
—Xenophon, c. 370 BC