Jazz is the result of the energy stored up in America.
—George Gershwin, 1933
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Men were born to lie, and women to believe them.
—John Gay, 1728The mill will never grind with water that is past.
—Daniel McCallum, 1870Those things are better which are perfected by nature than those which are finished by art.
—Cicero, c. 45 BCFar and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
—Theodore Roosevelt, 1903Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.
—Walter Scott, 1823A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
—Ouida, 1880The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1911Each night’s new terror drives away the terror of the night before.
—Sophocles, c. 450 BCRevenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.
—William Makepeace Thackeray, 1847To think ill of mankind, and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
—William Hazlitt, 1823Every man is worth just so much as the things he busies himself with.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 175Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1776