One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
—Oscar Wilde, 1895
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Spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings are strangely silent where once they were filled with the beauty of birdsong.
—Rachel Carson, 1962Better no law than no law enforced.
—Danish proverbI am ill every time it blows hard, and nothing but my enthusiastic love for the profession keeps me one hour at sea.
—Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1804Those things are better which are perfected by nature than those which are finished by art.
—Cicero, c. 45 BCToo many people have decided to do without generosity in order to practice charity.
—Albert Camus, 1956Revolutions never go backward.
—Thomas Skidmore, 1829This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are asked; unasked, they will never desist.
—Horace, c. 35 BCPetty laws breed great crimes.
—Ouida, 1880It is hard when nature does not respect your intentions, and she never does exactly respect them.
—Wendell Berry, 1985It is the little causes, long continued, which are considered as bringing about the greatest changes of the earth.
—James Hutton, 1795I think it makes small difference to the dead if they are buried in the tokens of luxury. All this is an empty glorification left for those who live.
—Euripides, 415 BCChildren and fools cannot lie.
—John Heywood, 1546