Speak without regard for the consequences, and it is too late for silence when disaster strikes.
—Huan Kuan, 81 BC
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The sea is mother-death, and she is a mighty female, the one who wins, the one who sucks us all up.
—Anne Sexton, 1971Slang is as old as speech and the congregating together of people in cities. It is the result of crowding and excitement and artificial life.
—John Camden Hotten, 1859I’ve been on more laps than a napkin.
—Mae WestIt is far, far better and much safer to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.
—John Kenneth Galbraith, 1958Revolution can never be forecast; it cannot be foretold; it comes of itself. Revolution is brewing and is bound to flare up.
—Vladimir Lenin, 1918Put national causes first and personal grudges last.
—Sima Qian, c. 91 BCExperience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government’s purposes are beneficent.
—Louis Brandeis, 1928The more religious a country is, the more crimes are committed in it.
—Napoleon Bonaparte, 1817He may be a patriot for Austria, but the question is whether he is a patriot for me.
—Emperor Francis Joseph, c. 1850There never is absolute birth nor complete death, in the strict sense, consisting in the separation of the soul from the body. What we call births are developments and growths, while what we call deaths are envelopments and diminutions.
—Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, 1714The friend of all humanity is no friend to me.
—Molière, 1666Curse on all laws but those which love has made.
—Alexander Pope, 1717