Every house: temple, empire, school.
—Joseph Joubert, 1800
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Men, my dear, are very queer animals—a mixture of horse nervousness, ass stubbornness, and camel malice.
—T. H. Huxley, 1895No poems can please long, nor live, that are written by water drinkers.
—Horace, 35 BCThe most radical revolutionary will become a conservative on the day after the revolution.
—Hannah Arendt, 1970Labor is no disgrace.
—Hesiod, c. 700 BCA large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
—Jane Austen, 1814The only evidence, so far as I know, about another life is, first, that we have no evidence; and, secondly, that we are rather sorry that we have not, and wish we had.
—Robert G. Ingersoll, 1879What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him your celebration is a sham.
—Frederick Douglass, 1855Why is a ship under sail more poetical than a hog in a high wind? The hog is all nature, the ship is all art.
—Lord Byron, 1821We should have a great many fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
—John Locke, 1690Eight hours for work, eight hours for sleep, eight hours for what we will.
—Slogan of the National Labor Union of the United States, 1866The snotgreen sea. The scrotumtightening sea.
—James Joyce, 1922To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the need for thought.
—Henri Poincaré, 1903