Travelers, poets, and liars are three words all of one significance.
—Richard Brathwaite, 1631
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The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.
—Anna Jameson, 1846Inventor, n. A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers, and springs and believes it civilization.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1911I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
—Gore Vidal, 1973The nature of God is a circle, of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere.
—Empedocles, c. 450 BCThe successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
—Erich Fromm, 1941It was funny how I could feel all alone and under surveillance at the same time.
—Cory Doctorow, 2013And your very flesh shall be a great poem.
—Walt Whitman, 1855Where shall I, of wandering weary, find my resting place at last?
—Heinrich Heine, 1827A change in the weather is sufficient to create the world and oneself anew.
—Marcel Proust, c. 1920Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1755The chief merit of language is clearness, and we know that nothing detracts so much from this as do unfamiliar terms.
—Galen, c. 175We get a deal o’ useless things about us, only because we’ve got the money to spend.
—George Eliot, 1860