Revolutions never go backward.
—Thomas Skidmore, 1829
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People revere the Constitution yet know so little about it—and that goes for some of my fellow senators.
—Robert Byrd, 2005There is not so contemptible a plant or animal that does not confound the most enlarged understanding.
—John Locke, 1689There is only one antidote to mental suffering and that is physical pain.
—Karl Marx, 1860Alone, alone, all, all alone, / Alone on a wide, wide sea!
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1798A multitude of small delights constitute happiness.
—Charles Baudelaire, 1897The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God.
—William Blake, 1793Man is merely a more perfect animal than the rest. He reasons better.
—Napoleon Bonaparte, 1816Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth.
—Czeslaw Milosz, 1946A dead enemy always smells good.
—Aulus Vitellius, 69The more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation.
—Plato, c. 375 BCThe children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.
—Ursula K. Le Guin, 1983Doctors don’t know everything really. They understand matter, not spirit. And you and I live in spirit.
—William Saroyan, 1943