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I have said this before, but I shall say it again and again and again: your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars.
—Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1940The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.
—Edward, Duke of Windsor, 1957To safeguard one’s health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness indeed.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1678Anyone who doesn’t know foreign languages knows nothing of his own.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1821If both what is before and what is after are in this same “now,” things which happened ten thousand years ago would be simultaneous with what has happened today, and nothing would be before or after anything else.
—Aristotle, c. 330 BCWhen you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.
—Chinese proverbI had rather be in a state of misery and envied for my supposed happiness than in a state of happiness and pitied for my supposed misery.
—Elizabeth Inchbald, 1793Your mind’s got to eat, too.
—Dambudzo Marechera, 1978Never greet a stranger in the night, for he may be a demon.
—Babylonian Talmud, c. 600If you read somebody’s diary, you get what you deserve.
—David Sedaris, 2004All men recognize the right of revolution, that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable.
—Henry David Thoreau, 1849The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1908