A friend in power is a friend lost.
—Henry Adams, 1905
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We and the dead ride quick at night.
—Gottfried August Bürger, 1773Darkness endows the small and ordinary ones among mankind with poetical power.
—Thomas Hardy, 1874I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes.
—Maxine Hong Kingston, 1976Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1871Those who are awake have a world that is one and common, but each of those who are asleep turns aside into his own particular world.
—Heraclitus, c. 500 BCIf parents would only realize how they bore their children!
—George Bernard Shaw, c. 1910There is nothing sillier than a silly laugh.
—Catullus, c. 60 BCFootball causeth fighting, brawling, contention, quarrel picking, murder, homicide and great effusion of bloode, as daily experience teacheth.
—Philip Stubbes, 1583Rebellion is no less a sin than divination.
—Book of Samuel, c. 550 BCSick, irritated, and the prey to a thousand discomforts, I go on with my labor like a true workingman, who, with sleeves rolled up, in the sweat of his brow, beats away at his anvil, not caring whether it rains or blows, hails or thunders.
—Gustave Flaubert, 1845Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, now that, and changes names as it changes in direction.
—Dante Alighieri, c. 1315One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
—Virginia Woolf, 1929