The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1911
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Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
—Oscar Wilde, 1890The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1787Usually speaking, the worst-bred person in company is a young traveler just returned from abroad.
—Jonathan Swift, c. 1730Family! Thou art the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.
—August Strindberg, 1886Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
—Frank Zappa, 1989The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.
—Agnes Repplier, 1929As peace is of all goodness, so war is an emblem, a hieroglyphic, of all misery.
—John Donne, 1622There’s hope a great man’s memory may outlive his life half a year.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1600All revolutions devour their own children.
—Ernst Röhm, 1933God never sent a messenger save with the language of his folk, that he might make the message clear for them.
—The Qur’an, c. 620Politics is the art of the possible.
—Otto von Bismarck, 1867The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1919