The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God.
—William Blake, 1793
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Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
—E.B. White, 1944If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater, suggest that he wear a tail.
—Fran Lebowitz, 1981Money is mourned with deeper sorrow than friends or kindred.
—Juvenal, 128Two things only the people anxiously desire, bread and the circus games.
—Juvenal, c. 121A mind lively and at ease can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.
—Jane Austen, 1815Spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings are strangely silent where once they were filled with the beauty of birdsong.
—Rachel Carson, 1962Sometime they’ll give a war and nobody will come.
—Carl Sandburg, 1936Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1920I hate the whole race. There is no believing a word they say—your professional poets, I mean—there never existed a more worthless set than Byron and his friends for example.
—Duke of Wellington, c. 1810Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.
—Norman Douglas, 1917All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the state.
—Albert Camus, 1951Everything that has wings is beyond the reach of the law.
—Joseph Joubert, 1791