He alone who owns the youth gains the future.
—Adolf Hitler, 1935
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I am ill every time it blows hard, and nothing but my enthusiastic love for the profession keeps me one hour at sea.
—Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1804Don’t ever wear artistic jewelry; it wrecks a woman’s reputation.
—Colette, 1944All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
—Toni Morrison, 1987If the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet.
—Charles M. Allen, 1967The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin.
—Heinrich Heine, 1827All law is of necessity defective in the beginning.
—Han Yu, c. 800In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: they must be fit for it; they must not do too much of it; and they must have a sense of success in it.
—John Ruskin, 1850Language is the armory of the human mind and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1817The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
—Henry Fielding, 1730A brilliant boxing match, quicksilver in its motions, transpiring far more rapidly than the mind can absorb, can have the power that Emily Dickinson attributed to great poetry: you know it’s great when it takes the top of your head off.
—Joyce Carol Oates, 1987When the abbot throws the dice, the whole convent will play.
—Martin Luther, c. 1540One who is frivolous all day will never establish a household.
—Ptahhotep, c. 2400 BC