The right to the pursuit of happiness is nothing else than the right to disillusionment phrased in another way.
—Aldous Huxley, 1956
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We want a lot of engineers in the modern world, but we do not want a world of engineers.
—Winston Churchill, 1948Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
—Zora Neale Hurston, 1937The home is a human institution. All human institutions are open to improvement.
—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1903In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1830Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame—to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a hell!
—Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1843Friendship’s a noble name, ’tis love refined.
—Susanna Centlivre, 1703Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be.
—William Hazlitt, 1819What touches all shall be approved by all.
—Edward I, 1295Friendship is a plant that loves the sun—thrives ill under clouds.
—Bronson Alcott, 1872Scandal begins where the police leave off.
—Karl Kraus, 1909An electoral choice of ten different fascists is like choosing which way one wishes to die.
—George Jackson, 1971I am no courtesan, nor moderator, nor tribune, nor defender of the people: I am myself the people.
—Maximilien Robespierre, 1792