I do love cricket—it’s so very English.
—Sarah Bernhardt, c. 1908
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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
—Jonathan Swift, 1706You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
—Cormac McCarthy, 2005To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
—Simone de Beauvoir, 1949The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty, and death of public opinion.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1902The right to the pursuit of happiness is nothing else than the right to disillusionment phrased in another way.
—Aldous Huxley, 1956Exchange is no robbery.
—German proverbWithout doubt God is the universal moving force, but each being is moved according to the nature that God has given it. He directs angels, man, animals, brute matter, in sum all created things—but each according to its nature—and man having been created free, he is freely led. This rule is truly the eternal law and in it we must believe.
—Joseph de Maistre, 1821What experience and history teach is this—that nations and governments have never learned anything from history or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it.
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, 1830Until you’ve lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.
—Margaret Mitchell, 1936Writing cannot express words fully; words cannot express thoughts fully.
—The Book of Changes, c. 350 BCThe highest result of education is tolerance.
—Helen Keller, 1903Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1776