No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law.
—Emma Goldman, 1917
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The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin.
—Heinrich Heine, 1827The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of a gun.
—P.G. Wodehouse, 1929Rivalry is the whetstone of talent.
—Roman proverbWithout virtue, both riches and honor, to me, seem like the passing cloud.
—Confucius, c. 350 BCWhere it is a duty to worship the sun, it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.
—John Morley, 1872One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat eight hours a day, nor drink for eight hours a day, nor make love for eight hours.
—William Faulkner, 1958Two things only the people anxiously desire, bread and the circus games.
—Juvenal, c. 121God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.
—J.M. Barrie, 1922A maid that laughs is half taken.
—John Ray, 1670Diseases are not immutable entities but dynamic social constructions that have biographies of their own.
—Robert P. Hudson, 1983Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
—Alexander Pope, 1738A dissolute and intemperate youth hands down the body to old age in a worn-out state.
—Cicero, 44 BC