Perish the universe, provided I have my revenge.
—Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac, 1654
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Do you suppose it possible to know democracy without knowing the people?
—Xenophon, c. 370 BCFor most of us, nighttime dreaming brings us closer to our identities and our power than any activity in the waking world.
—Walter Mosley, 2000Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
—Francis Bacon, 1625As usual, what we call “progress” is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.
—Havelock Ellis, 1914Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.
—George W. Bush, 2004By 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, 1955Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1920A dissolute and intemperate youth hands down the body to old age in a worn-out state.
—Cicero, 44 BCIn dealing with the dead, if we treat them as if they were entirely dead, that would show a want of affection and should not be done; or, if we treat them as if they were entirely alive, that would show a want of wisdom and should not be done.
—Confucius, c. 500 BCThere is no blindness more insidious, more fatal, than this race for profit.
—Helen Keller, 1928Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other both in mind and body, to try the manners of different nations, to hear the chimes at midnight.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1881All streams run to the sea, but the sea is not full.
—Book of Ecclesiastes, c. 250 BC