My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.
—Allen Ginsberg, 1981
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Years are nothing to me—they should be nothing to you. Who asked you to count them or to consider them? In the world of wild nature, time is measured by seasons only—the bird does not know how old it is—the rose tree does not count its birthdays!
—Marie Corelli, 1911Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.
—Jane Austen, 1811This is not a clash between civilizations. It is a clash about civilization.
—Tony Blair, 2006When arms speak, the laws are silent.
—Cicero, 52 BCThere will always be a lost dog somewhere that will prevent me from being happy.
—Jean Anouilh, 1934The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.
—James Fenimore Cooper, 1838Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world: it gives women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance. I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel. The picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.
—Susan B. Anthony, 1896The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.
—Germaine Greer, 1970Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.
—D.H. Lawrence, 1908The noblest kind of retribution is not to become like your enemy.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 175One’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
—George Santayana, c. 1914The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure it is right.
—Judge Learned Hand, 1944