They say, “We only have the life of this world. We die and we live, and nothing destroys us but time.” Yet, not true knowledge have they of this—only belief.
—The Qur’an, c. 620
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If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.
—Francis Bacon, 1615The future...something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
—C.S. Lewis, 1941Anyone who has passed through the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.
—William Hazlitt, 1821There’s hope a great man’s memory may outlive his life half a year.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1600If people think Nature is their friend, then they sure don’t need an enemy.
—Kurt Vonnegut, 1988The law’s made to take care o’ raskills.
—George Eliot, 1860If there is a word in the dictionary under any letter from A to Z that I abominate, it is energy.
—Charles Dickens, 1865To live on a day-to-day basis is insufficient for human beings; we need to transcend, transport, escape; we need meaning, understanding, and explanation.
—Oliver Sacks, 2012I’ve dreamed enough to have a drink.
—François Rabelais, 1546The mill will never grind with water that is past.
—Daniel McCallum, 1870Most men employ the first years of their life in making the last miserable.
—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688No time to marry, no time to settle down, I’m a young woman, and ain’t done runnin’ round.
—Bessie Smith, 1926