They say that gifts persuade even the gods.
—Euripides, 431 BC
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Nature’s rules have no exceptions.
—Herbert Spencer, 1851Do you not see how God is praised by those in the heavens and those on earth? The very birds praised Him as they wing their way.
—The Qur’an, c. 620They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
—Francis Bacon, 1605The most may err as grossly as the few.
—John Dryden, 1681Childhood has no forebodings—but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.
—George Eliot, 1860That is happiness: to be dissolved into something complete and great.
—Willa Cather, 1918Everyone lives by selling something.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1892The world is wearied of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1870By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.
—Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1955All men recognize the right of revolution, that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable.
—Henry David Thoreau, 1849Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.
—D.H. Lawrence, 1911Divine nature gave the fields; human art built the cities.
—Marcus Terentius Varro, c. 70 BC