Friends are fictions founded on some single momentary experience.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1864
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Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.
—Norman Douglas, 1917The Revolution is made by man, but man must forge his revolutionary spirit from day to day.
—Che Guevara, 1968An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 1746Everything that has wings is beyond the reach of the law.
—Joseph Joubert, 1791For what do we live but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?
—Jane Austen, 1813I hate the present modes of living and getting a living. Farming and shopkeeping and working at a trade or profession are all odious to me. I should relish getting my living in a simple, primitive fashion.
—Henry David Thoreau, 1855The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do.
—B.F. Skinner, 1969I do not mean to call an elephant a vulgar animal, but if you think about him carefully, you will find that his nonvulgarity consists in such gentleness as is possible to elephantine nature—not in his insensitive hide, nor in his clumsy foot, but in the way he will lift his foot if a child lies in his way; and in his sensitive trunk, and still more sensitive mind, and capability of pique on points of honor.
—John Ruskin, 1860The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin.
—Heinrich Heine, 1827It is impossible to translate the poets. Can you translate music?
—Voltaire, c. 1732If law and justice do not attain their ends, the people will be unable to move hand or foot.
—Confucius, c. 500When one has a famishing thirst for happiness, one is apt to gulp down diversions wherever they are offered.
—Alice Hegan Rice, 1917