Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.
—Calvin Coolidge, 1932
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If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.
—Henry Clay, 1812Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth. Suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully.
—Julie Burchill, 1986A mind lively and at ease can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.
—Jane Austen, 1815In a court of fowls, the cockroach never wins its case.
—Rwandan proverbDon’t you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up?
—D.H. Lawrence, 1920A jest breaks no bones.
—Samuel Johnson, 1781When you name yourself, you always name another.
—Bertolt Brecht, 1926No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in vain tried to put into our heads before.
—Jonathan Swift, 1706The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases. We go on a journey chiefly to be free of all impediments and of all inconveniences—to leave ourselves behind, much more to get rid of others.
—William Hazlitt, 1822To be too conscious is an illness—a real thoroughgoing illness.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1864Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1755If we wait for a pandemic to appear, it will be too late to prepare.
—George W. Bush, 2005