Democracy cannot be static. Whatever is static is dead.
—Eleanor Roosevelt, 1942
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Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be.
—William Hazlitt, 1819I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool than I am.
—Alice James, 1889Luck takes the step that no one sees.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BCWhat man was ever content with one crime?
—Juvenal, c. 125There is something stirring in the way civilization gapes like a savage at the achievements of nature.
—Karl Kraus, 1909God is alive. Magic is afoot.
—Leonard Cohen, 1966What one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how to learn.
—Henry Adams, 1907Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us but for ours to amuse them.
—Evelyn Waugh, 1963The money we have is the means to liberty; that which we pursue is the means to slavery.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, c. 1770Let my epitaph be, “Here lies Joseph, who failed in everything he undertook.”
—Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II, 1790Much money makes a country poor, for it sets a dearer price on every thing.
—George Herbert, 1640