Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
—Joseph Stalin, 1934
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Laws, like houses, lean on one another.
—Edmund Burke, 1765If parents would only realize how they bore their children!
—George Bernard Shaw, c. 1910The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God.
—William Blake, 1793The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.
—Marianne Moore, 1935I’ve been on a calendar, but never on time.
—Marilyn Monroe, 1962Pride and excess bring disaster for man.
—Xunzi, 250 BCFrance has neither winter, summer, nor morals—apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.
—Mark Twain, 1879Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs only to the people who prepare for it today.
—Malcolm X, 1964The country only has charms for those not obliged to stay there.
—Édouard Manet, c. 1860The dead are often just as living to us as the living are, only we cannot get them to believe it. They can come to us, but till we die we cannot go to them. To be dead is to be unable to understand that one is alive.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1888From the cradle to the coffin, underwear comes first.
—Bertolt Brecht, 1928There is nothing worse for mortals than a wandering life.
—Homer, c. 750 BC