Whole nations have melted away like balls of snow before the sun.
—Dragging Canoe, 1775
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If parents would only realize how they bore their children!
—George Bernard Shaw, c. 1910Do we want laurels for ourselves most, / Or most that no one else shall have any?
—Amy Lowell, 1922One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1911It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mold, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work.
—Edward Gibbon, c. 1790All those who suffer in the world do so because of their desire for their own happiness.
—Shantideva, c. 750Laughter always arises from a gaiety of disposition, absolutely incompatible with contempt and indignation.
—Voltaire, 1736Most men employ the first years of their life in making the last miserable.
—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688Your body is the church where nature asks to be reverenced.
—Marquis de Sade, 1797The U.S. presidency is a Tudor monarchy plus telephones.
—Anthony Burgess, 1972War is the child of pride, and pride the daughter of riches.
—Jonathan Swift, 1697Some folks want their luck buttered.
—Thomas Hardy, 1886What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.
—Joseph Addison, 1711