Some nights are like honey—and some like wine—and some like wormwood.
—L.M. Montgomery, 1927
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He laughs best who laughs last.
—French proverbMen willingly believe what they wish.
—Julius Caesar, c. 50 BCWe all have a contract with the public—in us they see themselves, or what they would like to be.
—Clark Gable, 1935All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy.
—Al Smith, 1933To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
—Simone de Beauvoir, 1949Once you hear the details of a victory it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
—Jean-Paul Sartre, 1951It’s your business when your neighbor’s wall is in flames.
—Horace, 19 BCFrance has neither winter, summer, nor morals—apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.
—Mark Twain, 1879What reason weaves, by passion is undone.
—Alexander Pope, 1972You should never have your best trousers on when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.
—Henrik Ibsen, 1882Let us leave this Europe which never stops talking of Man yet massacres him at every one of its street corners, at every corner of the world.
—Frantz Fanon, 1961Water its living strength first shows, / When obstacles its course oppose.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1815