Drink today and drown all sorrow; / You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow.
—John Fletcher, 1625
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No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation.
—Woodrow Wilson, 1915Secrecy lies at the very core of power.
—Elias Canetti, 1960Toil is man’s allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that’s more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.
—Herman Melville, 1849This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.
—Abraham Lincoln, 1861If I had been born a man, I would have conquered Europe. As I was born a woman, I exhausted my energy in tirades against fate and in eccentricities.
—Marie Bashkirtseff, 1884To hold a throne is luck; to bestow it, virtue.
—Seneca the Younger, c. 45Memory is necessary for all operations of reasoning.
—Blaise Pascal, c. 1658It is not too much to expect that our children will enjoy in their homes electrical energy too cheap to meter.
—Lewis Strauss, 1954Money is a language for translating the work of the farmer into the work of the barber, doctor, engineer, or plumber.
—Marshall McLuhan, 1964Don’t try to make a profit on a bad trade; just try to find the best place to get out.
—Linda Bradford Raschke, 1992The fox knows lots of tricks, the hedgehog only one—but it’s a winner.
—Archilochus, c. 650 BCThe severity of a teacher is better than the love of a father.
—Saadi, 1258