An ugly sight, a man who’s afraid.
—Jean Anouilh, 1944
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There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of puritanism, and that is the impulse to punish the man with a superior capacity for happiness.
—H.L. Mencken, 1920Every fool becomes a philosopher after ten days of rain.
—Clover Adams, 1882My people and I have come to an agreement that satisfies us both. They are to say what they please, and I am to do what I please.
—Frederick the Great, c. 1770The home is a human institution. All human institutions are open to improvement.
—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1903Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
—John F. Kennedy, 1962Now there is fame! Of all—hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public—fame is by far the worst. It is the castigation by God of the artist. It is sad. It is true.
—Pablo Picasso, c. 1961A true German can’t stand the French, / Yet willingly he drinks their wines.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1832Medication alone is not to be relied on. In one half the cases medicine is not needed, or is worse than useless. Obedience to spiritual and physical laws—hygiene of the body and hygiene of the spirit—is the surest warrant for health and happiness.
—Harriot K. Hunt, 1856The transition from tenseness, self-responsibility, and worry to equanimity, receptivity, and peace is the most wonderful of all those shiftings of inner equilibrium, those changes of personal center of energy.
—William James, 1902The sea receives us in a proper way only when we are without clothes.
—Pliny the Elder, 77The only justification of rebellion is success.
—Thomas B. Reed, 1878Of my friends, I am the only one I have left.
—Terence, 161 BC