Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1928
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It belongs to a nobleman to weep in an hour of disaster.
—Euripides, 412 BCMost authors seek fame, but I seek for justice—a holier impulse than ever entered into the ambitious struggles of the votaries of that fickle, flirting goddess.
—Davy Crockett, 1834It is hell to belong to a suppressed minority.
—Claude McKay, 1937Men are able to assist fortune but not to thwart her. They can weave her designs, but they cannot destroy them.
—Niccolò Machiavelli, 1531The only evidence, so far as I know, about another life is, first, that we have no evidence; and, secondly, that we are rather sorry that we have not, and wish we had.
—Robert G. Ingersoll, 1879I love everyone now that I have gray hair.
—Polatkin, c. 1855Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
—Joseph Stalin, 1934There is nothing sillier than a silly laugh.
—Catullus, c. 60 BCHe who would have clear water should go to the fountainhead.
—Italian proverbHe alone who owns the youth gains the future.
—Adolf Hitler, 1935Friendship itself will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
—Robert Wilson Lynd, 1924Fire destroys that which feeds it.
—Simone Weil, c. 1940