Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, c. 1940
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Democracy cannot be static. Whatever is static is dead.
—Eleanor Roosevelt, 1942It’s only the futility of the first flood that prevents God from sending a second.
—Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, c. 1794The hatred of relatives is the bitterest.
—Tacitus, 117What one man can invent another can discover.
—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1905I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool than I am.
—Alice James, 1889Good or ill fortune is very little at our disposal.
—David Hume, 1742A human being must have occupation, if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.
—Dorothy L. Sayers, 1947Many are the wonders of the world, and none so wonderful as man.
—Sophocles, c. 441 BCArt lives from constraints and dies from freedom.
—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1480It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me.
—Martin Luther King Jr., 1962I mean, why on earth (outside sickness and hangovers) aren’t people continually drunk? I want ecstasy of the mind all the time.
—Jack Kerouac, 1957Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
—Alexander Pope, 1733