Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.
—Henry David Thoreau, 1852
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Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.
—Pericles, c. 431 BCFamous, adj. Conspicuously miserable.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906It is strange indeed that the more we learn about how to build health, the less healthy Americans become.
—Adelle Davis, 1951The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt.
—Leviticus, c. 600 BCI went [to war] because I couldn’t help it. I didn’t want the glory or the pay; I wanted the right thing done.
—Louisa May Alcott, 1863To endeavor to forget anyone is a certain way of thinking of nothing else.
—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688Oligopoly, plutocracy, kleptocracy: All things that are good for a shareholder.
—James J. Cramer, 2006We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
—Tennessee Williams, 1953By the blessing of the upright the city is exalted, but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 350 BCThe three little sentences that will get you through life. Number 1: Cover for me. Number 2: Oh, good idea, Boss! Number 3: It was like that when I got here.
—Nell Scovell, 1991Curse on all laws but those which love has made.
—Alexander Pope, 1717The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
—Edward Gibbon, 1788