I’m at an age when my back goes out more than I do.
—Phyllis Diller, 1981
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No one makes a revolution by himself, and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand.
—George Sand, 1851Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
—Theodore Roosevelt, 1903Memory is like the moon, which hath its new, its full, and its wane.
—Margaret Cavendish, 1655Knowledge itself is power.
—Francis Bacon, 1597A mind lively and at ease can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.
—Jane Austen, 1815’Tis the destroyer, or the devil, that scatters plagues about the world.
—Cotton Mather, 1693I count myself in nothing else so happy / As in a soul remembering my good friends.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1595Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god.
—Jean Rostand, 1939Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.
—Herbert Hoover, 1936If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.
—Henry Clay, 1812How sickness enlarges the dimension of a man’s self to himself! He is his own exclusive object.
—Charles Lamb, 1833A bad reputation is easy to come by, painful to bear, and difficult to clear.
—Hesiod, c. 700 BC