Talk to me about the truth of religion and I’ll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I’ll listen submissively. But don’t come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don’t understand.
—C.S. Lewis, 1961
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Some folks want their luck buttered.
—Thomas Hardy, 1886He knows the water best who has waded through it.
—Danish proverbNothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.
—Robertson Davies, 1985All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it.
—Henry David Thoreau, 1849Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
—Albert Camus, 1951Friendship! Sir, there can be no such thing without an equality.
—George Farquhar, 1702The drunken man is a living corpse.
—St. John Chrysostom, c. 390The peasants alone are revolutionary, for they have nothing to lose and everything to gain. The starving peasant, outside the class system, is the first among the exploited to discover that only violence pays. For him there is no compromise, no possible coming to terms.
—Frantz Fanon, 1961Show me someone who never gossips, and I’ll show you someone who isn’t interested in people.
—Barbara Walters, 1975Those 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 BCFate leads the willing and drags along those who hang back.
—Cleanthes, c. 250 BCTo safeguard one’s health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness indeed.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1678