Some nights are like honey—and some like wine—and some like wormwood.
—L.M. Montgomery, 1927
Archive
Quotes
Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.
—Miguel de Unamuno, 1913Whole nations have melted away like balls of snow before the sun.
—Dragging Canoe, 1775Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government’s purposes are beneficent.
—Louis Brandeis, 1928The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1919It is very foolish to attack one’s enemy openly if one can injure him in secret.
—Giambattista Giraldi, 1543The world is made of the very stuff of the body.
—Maurice Merleau-Ponty, 1961History is a people’s memory, and without a memory man is demoted to the level of the lower animals.
—Malcolm X, 1964The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1615Fire is a natural symbol of life and passion, though it is the one element in which nothing can actually live.
—Susanne K. Langer, 1942Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1890Why is not a rat as good as a rabbit? Why should men eat shrimps and neglect cockroaches?
—Henry Ward Beecher, 1862The greatest veneration one can show the law is to keep a watch on it.
—Nadine Gordimer, 1971