A school without grades must have been concocted by someone who was drunk on nonalcoholic wine.
—Karl Kraus, 1909
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God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
—John Lennon, 1970We do not suffer by accident.
—Jane Austen, 1813The sea serves the pirate as well as the trader.
—Prudentius, c. 405I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.
—Samuel Johnson, 1773Politics is the art of the possible.
—Otto von Bismarck, 1867There is no crime without precedent.
—Seneca the Younger, c. 60Petty laws breed great crimes.
—Ouida, 1880The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.
—James Fenimore Cooper, 1838Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs only to the people who prepare for it today.
—Malcolm X, 1964Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.
—Cyril Connolly, 1944The sea receives us in a proper way only when we are without clothes.
—Pliny the Elder, 77