Let us make our own mistakes, but let us take comfort in the knowledge that they are our own mistakes.
—Tom Mboya, 1958
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There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.
—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1898I never yet could make out why men are so fond of hunting; they often hurt themselves, often spoil good horses, and tear up the fields—and all for a hare or a fox or a stag that they could get more easily some other way.
—Anna Sewell, 1877We and the dead ride quick at night.
—Gottfried August Bürger, 1773The merchant always has fresh losses to expect, and the dread of base poverty forbids his rest.
—Decimus Magnus Ausonius, c. 390The law’s made to take care o’ raskills.
—George Eliot, 1860When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.
—Chinese proverbI have a terrible memory; I never forget a thing.
—Edith Konecky, 1976The sleep of reason produces monsters.
—Francisco Goya, 1799The life of the dead consists in the recollection cherished of them by the living.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 43 BCIn order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: they must be fit for it; they must not do too much of it; and they must have a sense of success in it.
—John Ruskin, 1850I shall be an autocrat: that’s my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that’s his.
—Catherine the Great, c. 1796Play, wherein persons of condition, especially ladies, waste so much of their time, is a plain instance to me that men cannot be perfectly idle; they must be doing something, for how else could they sit so many hours toiling at that which generally gives more vexation than delight to people whilst they are actually engaged in it?
—John Locke, 1693