I have loved justice and hated iniquity: therefore I die in exile.
—Gregory VII, c. 1085
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Man must be doing something, or fancy that he is doing something, for in him throbs the creative impulse; the mere basker in the sunshine is not a natural, but an abnormal man.
—Henry George, 1879It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
—Dolores Ibárruri, 1936All the married heiresses I have known have shipwrecked.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1880The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.
—Donald Barthelme, 1964If you are truly serious about preparing your child for the future, don’t teach him to subtract—teach him to deduct.
—Fran Lebowitz, 1981Resorting to the law to resolve a dispute is a declaration of spiritual bankruptcy.
—Quentin Crisp, 1984A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast.
—The BibleIf I had the use of my body I would throw it out of the window.
—Samuel Beckett, 1951To cast aside obedience, and by popular violence to incite revolt, is treason, not against man only, but against God.
—Pope Leo XIII, 1885Great inventors and discoverers seem to have made their discoveries and inventions, as it were, by the way, in the course of their everyday life.
—Elizabeth Charles, 1862A true German can’t stand the French, / Yet willingly he drinks their wines.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1832The sleep of reason produces monsters.
—Francisco Goya, 1799