Give us this day our television, and an automobile, but deliver us from freedom.
—Jean-Luc Godard, 1966
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Music sweeps by me as a messenger / Carrying a message that is not for me.
—George Eliot, 1868The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man’s body.
—Francis Bacon, 1605It seems to me that we all look at nature too much and live with her too little.
—Oscar Wilde, 1897There is a demon who puts wings on certain tales and launches them like eagles out into space.
—Alexandre Dumas, 1846Let us have peace, but let us have liberty, law, and justice first.
—Frederick Douglass, 1878Those who travel heedlessly from place to place, observing only their distance from each other and attending only to their accommodation at the inn at night, set out fools, and will certainly return so.
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 1747Epitaph, n. An inscription on a tomb, showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906When arms speak, the laws are silent.
—Cicero, 52 BCThe workers are the saviors of society, the redeemers of the race.
—Eugene V. Debs, 1905Health can make money, but money cannot make health.
—Maria Edgeworth, 1833We must consider that we shall be a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us, so that if we deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause Him to withdraw His present help from us, we shall be made a story and a byword through the world.
—John Winthrop, 1630Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1886