Revolutions never go backward.
—Thomas Skidmore, 1829
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If there is a word in the dictionary under any letter from A to Z that I abominate, it is energy.
—Charles Dickens, 1865They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
—Francis Bacon, 1605Many, many steeples would have to be stacked one on top of another to reach from the bottom to the surface of the sea. It is down there that the sea folk live.
—Hans Christian Andersen, 1837When arms speak, the laws are silent.
—Cicero, 52 BCI never know quite when I’m not writing. Sometimes my wife comes up to me at a party and says, Dammit, Thurber, stop writing. She usually catches me in the middle of a paragraph. Or my daughter will look up from the dinner table and ask, Is he sick? No, my wife says, he’s writing something.
—James Thurber, 1955To eat is to appropriate by destruction.
—Jean-Paul Sartre, 1943The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1911Jazz is the result of the energy stored up in America.
—George Gershwin, 1933How sweet it is to have people point and say, “There he is.”
—Persius, c. 60He who has nothing has no friends.
—Greek proverbTelevision has made dictatorship impossible, but democracy unbearable.
—Shimon Peres, 1995One may like the love and despise the lover.
—George Farquhar, 1706