Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
—W.H. Auden, 1957
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As usual, what we call “progress” is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.
—Havelock Ellis, 1914Without doubt God is the universal moving force, but each being is moved according to the nature that God has given it. He directs angels, man, animals, brute matter, in sum all created things—but each according to its nature—and man having been created free, he is freely led. This rule is truly the eternal law and in it we must believe.
—Joseph de Maistre, 1821The men of today are born to criticize; of Achilles they see only the heel.
—Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, 1880An oppressed people are authorized, whenever they can, to rise and break their fetters.
—Henry Clay, 1842Misfortune, n. The kind of fortune that never misses.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do.
—William James, 1902Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, now that, and changes names as it changes in direction.
—Dante Alighieri, c. 1315Home is wherever I go.
—Indira Gandhi, 1955He that serves God for money will serve the Devil for better wages.
—Roger L’Estrange, 1692Those 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 BCPolitics, n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906