An exile with no home anywhere is a corpse without a grave.
—Publilius Syrus, 50 BC
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Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 150 BCThe great difficulty lies in trying to transpose last night’s moment to a day which has no knowledge of it.
—Zora Neale Hurston, 1942If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
—Voltaire, 1764Think rich. Look poor.
—Andy Warhol, 1975Intolerance is evidence of impotence.
—Aleister Crowley, c. 1925We are to go to law never to revenge, but only to repair.
—Samuel Pepys, 1661Let the people think they govern, and they will be governed.
—William Penn, 1693So long as one believes in God, one has the right to do the Good in order to be moral.
—Jean-Paul Sartre, c. 1950Insurgents are like conquerors: they must go forward; the moment they are stopped, they are lost.
—Duke of Wellington, c. 1819It is impossible to translate the poets. Can you translate music?
—Voltaire, c. 1732You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation.
—Billie Holiday, 1956When the root lives on, the new leaves come back.
—Aeschylus, c. 458 BC