If the people be the governors, who shall be governed?
—John Cotton, c. 1636
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No law is sufficiently convenient to all.
—Roman proverbAn election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
—George Eliot, 1866What will not attract a man’s stare at sea?—a gull, a turtle, a flying fish!
—Richard Burton, 1883Show me someone who never gossips, and I’ll show you someone who isn’t interested in people.
—Barbara Walters, 1975No one’s serious at seventeen.
—Arthur Rimbaud, 1870Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.
—W.H. Auden, c. 1940When we see a natural style we are quite amazed and delighted, because we expected to see an author and find a man.
—Blaise Pascal, c. 1657None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.
—Pearl S. Buck, 1943We do not suffer by accident.
—Jane Austen, 1813It seems to me that we all look at nature too much and live with her too little.
—Oscar Wilde, 1897Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
—Honoré de Balzac, 1847To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the need for thought.
—Henri Poincaré, 1903