The future is no more uncertain than the present.
—Walt Whitman, 1856
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Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words?
—Marcel Marceau, 1958The spirit of revolution, the spirit of insurrection, is a spirit radically opposed to liberty.
—François Guizot, 1830How sad a sight is human happiness to those whose thoughts can pierce beyond an hour!
—Edward Young, 1741Luck, in the great game of war, is undoubtedly lord of all.
—Arthur Griffiths, 1899Anyone who has a child should train him to be either a physicist or a ballet dancer. Then he’ll escape.
—W.H. Auden, 1947All traveling becomes dull in exact proportion to its rapidity.
—John Ruskin, 1856One race there is of men, one of gods, but from one mother we both draw our breath.
—Pindar, c. 450 BCDemocracy produces both heroes and villains, but it differs from a fascist state in that it does not produce a hero who is a villain.
—Margaret Halsey, 1946All that we know is nothing can be known.
—Lord Byron, 1812An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 1746Education—a debt due from present to future generations.
—George Peabody, 1852Hunting is all that’s worth living for—all time is lost what is not spent in hunting—it is like the air we breathe—if we have it not we die—it’s the sport of kings, the image of war without its guilt.
—Robert Smith Surtees, 1843