Our whole life is but one great school; from the cradle to the grave we are all learners; nor will our education be finished until we die.
—Ann Plato, 1841
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The righteous know the needs of their animals, but the mercy of the wicked is cruel.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 500 BCSome to the common pulpits, and cry out / “Liberty, freedom, and enfranchisement!”
—William Shakespeare, c. 1599Far water cannot quench near fire.
—Japanese proverbWithout music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
—Frank Zappa, 1989We must consider that we shall be a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us, so that if we deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause Him to withdraw His present help from us, we shall be made a story and a byword through the world.
—John Winthrop, 1630Life is no way to treat an animal.
—Kurt Vonnegut, 2005Health care delivery is one of the tragedies still in America.
—Jewel Plummer Cobb, 1989Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.
—Aristotle, c. 350 BCSeven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.
—Jane Austen, 1811The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. And I knew we’d get into that rotten stuff pretty soon. Probably at the next gas station.
—Hunter S. Thompson, 1971I do love cricket—it’s so very English.
—Sarah Bernhardt, c. 1908And your very flesh shall be a great poem.
—Walt Whitman, 1855