People will never fight for your freedom if you have not given evidence that you are prepared to fight for it yourself.
—Bayard Rustin, 1986
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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules, and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence; in other words it is war minus the shooting.
—George Orwell, 1945The Church says that the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in the shadow than in the Church.
—Ferdinand Magellan, c. 1510Water has many ways of reminding us that when we are in it we are out of our element.
—Christopher Hitchens, 2008Don’t ever wear artistic jewelry; it wrecks a woman’s reputation.
—Colette, 1944I curse the night, yet doth from day me hide.
—William Drummond, 1616I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1816Speech is the mirror of the soul; as a man speaks, so is he.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BCIf you stain clear water with filth, you will never find a drink.
—Aeschylus, 458 BCIn every ill turn of fortune, the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy.
—Boethius, c. 520Youth, youth, springtime of beauty.
—Anthem of the National Fascist Party, c. 1924The most fitting occupation for a civilized man is to do nothing.
—Théophile Gautier, c. 1835As is the face, so is the mind.
—Roman proverb