It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
—Thomas Hardy, 1874
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Tomorrow never comes, man. It’s all the same fucking day.
—Janis Joplin, 1972Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1776To be a successful father… there’s one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don’t look at it for the first two years.
—Ernest Hemingway, 1954The workers are the saviors of society, the redeemers of the race.
—Eugene V. Debs, 1905What is outside my mind means nothing to it.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170In dealing with the dead, if we treat them as if they were entirely dead, that would show a want of affection and should not be done; or, if we treat them as if they were entirely alive, that would show a want of wisdom and should not be done.
—Confucius, c. 500 BCWhen law can do no right,
Let it be lawful that law bar no wrong.
Men argue, nature acts.
—Voltaire, 1764There is no small pleasure in sweet water.
—Ovid, c. 10There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891It is no longer a government of the people, by the people, and for the people, but a government of Wall Street, by Wall Street, and for Wall Street.
—Mary Lease, c. 1890Speak and speed; the close mouth catches no flies.
—Benjamin Franklin, c. 1732