Quotes

Whoever gulps down wine as a horse gulps down water is called a Scythian.

—Athenaeus, c. 230

Inventions that are not made, like babies that are not born, are rarely missed.

—John Kenneth Galbraith, 1958

To live outside the law you must be honest.

—Bob Dylan, 1966

A jest breaks no bones.

—Samuel Johnson, 1781

Sic semper tyrannis! The South is avenged.

—John Wilkes Booth, 1865

Pictures made in childhood are painted in bright hues.

—Kate Douglas Wiggin, 1886

Our whole life is but one great school; from the cradle to the grave we are all learners; nor will our education be finished until we die.

—Ann Plato, 1841

God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.

—J.M. Barrie, 1922

All law is of necessity defective in the beginning.

—Han Yu, c. 800

Of my friends, I am the only one I have left.

—Terence, 161 BC

Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

—George Washington, 1796

Let us make our own mistakes, but let us take comfort in the knowledge that they are our own mistakes.

—Tom Mboya, 1958

Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth but not its twin.

—Barbara Kingsolver, 1990

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