Make the revolution a parent of settlement and not a nursery of future revolutions.
—Edmund Burke, 1790
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The pleasure we hold in esteem for the course of our lives ought to have a greater share of our time dedicated to it; we should refuse no occasion nor omit any opportunity of drinking, and always have it in our minds.
—Michel de Montaigne, 1580The man in constant fear is every day condemned.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BCI count myself in nothing else so happy / As in a soul remembering my good friends.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1595The world is for thousands a freak show; the images flicker past and vanish.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1776Education—a debt due from present to future generations.
—George Peabody, 1852A hick town is one where there is no place to go where you shouldn’t go.
—Alexander Woollcott, c. 1935The law is not the same at morning and at night.
—George Herbert, c. 1633A friend who is very near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.
—George Ade, 1902Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved.
—Iris Murdoch, 1974Hate must make a man productive. Otherwise one might as well love.
—Karl Kraus, 1912My language is the common prostitute that I turn into a virgin.
—Karl Kraus, c. 1910Everybody says it; and what everybody says must be true.
—James Fenimore Cooper, 1844