The future is no more uncertain than the present.
—Walt Whitman, 1856
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If men are to wait for liberty till they become wise and good in slavery, they may indeed wait forever.
—Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1843The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts.
—Italo Calvino, 1967The severity of a teacher is better than the love of a father.
—Saadi, 1258The gods play games with men as balls.
—Plautus, c. 200 BCPeople revere the Constitution yet know so little about it—and that goes for some of my fellow senators.
—Robert Byrd, 2005I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast, for I intend to go in harm’s way.
—John Paul Jones, 1778The worship of opinion is, at this day, the established religion of the United States.
—Harriet Martineau, 1839Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented.
—Willem de Kooning, 1949Some memories are like lucky charms, talismans, one shouldn’t tell about them or they’ll lose their power.
—Iris Murdoch, 1985Democracy cannot be static. Whatever is static is dead.
—Eleanor Roosevelt, 1942A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can’t think of anything else to do.
—W.H. Auden, 1946You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she’ll be constantly running back.
—Horace, 20 BC