The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
—George Santayana, 1905
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No free man shall be taken or imprisoned or dispossessed or outlawed or exiled, or in any way destroyed, nor will we go upon him, nor will we send against him except by the lawful judgment of his peers or by the law of the land.
—Magna Carta, 1215The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.
—Edward VIII, 1957I have sometimes thought that the laws ought not to punish those actions of evil which are committed when the senses are steeped in intoxication.
—Walt Whitman, 1842Man punishes the action, but God the intention.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732One thing alone not even God can do: to make undone whatever has been done.
—Aristotle, c. 350 BCImitate the ass in his love to his master.
—St. John Chrysostom, c. 388The United States has virtually set up an empire on impounded and redistributed water.
—Charles P. Berkey, 1946No man ever distinguished himself who could not bear to be laughed at.
—Maria Edgeworth, 1809I’m afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.
—Aldous Huxley, 1925The smell of rain is rich with life.
—Estela Portillo Trambley, 1975Show me someone who never gossips, and I’ll show you someone who isn’t interested in people.
—Barbara Walters, 1975I’d like to be a machine, wouldn’t you?
—Andy Warhol, 1963