Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.
—George Orwell, 1944
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Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
—Bertrand Russell, 1930More and more I like to take a train. I understand why the French prefer it to automobiling—it is so much more sociable, and of course these days so much more of an adventure, and the irregularity of its regularity is fascinating.
—Gertrude Stein, 1943Out of the crooked timber of humanity no straight thing was ever made.
—Immanuel Kant, 1784Sic semper tyrannis! The South is avenged.
—John Wilkes Booth, 1865Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1886I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1789The gods play games with men as balls.
—Plautus, c. 200 BCOne cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
—Virginia Woolf, 1929Television has made dictatorship impossible, but democracy unbearable.
—Shimon Peres, 1995As man disappears from sight, the land remains.
—Maori proverbIf men are to wait for liberty till they become wise and good in slavery, they may indeed wait forever.
—Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1843There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1790