All moanday, tearsday, wailsday, thumpsday, frightday, shatterday till the fear of the Law.
—James Joyce, 1939
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Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be.
—William Hazlitt, 1819The ingrained idea that, because there is no king and they despise titles, the Americans are a free people is pathetically untrue.
—Margot Asquith, 1922Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth but not its twin.
—Barbara Kingsolver, 1990It is noble to die before doing anything that deserves death.
—Anaxandrides, c. 376Drinking with women is as unnatural as scolding with ’em.
—William Wycherley, 1675All that we know is nothing can be known.
—Lord Byron, 1812The best quarantine is hygiene.
—Richard D. Arnold, 1871Language is the armory of the human mind and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1817The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein, c. 1947As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
—Abraham Lincoln, c. 1858Africa has her mysteries, and even a wise man cannot understand them. But a wise man respects them.
—Miriam Makeba, 1988Communities do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1863