Sometime they’ll give a war and nobody will come.
—Carl Sandburg, 1936
Archive
Quotes
A crust of bread and a corner to sleep in / A minute to smile and an hour to weep in.
—Paul Laurence Dunbar, 1895He who dies of epidemic disease is a martyr.
—Muhammad, c. 630For what do we live but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?
—Jane Austen, 1813Courage and grace is a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring.
—Marlene Dietrich, 1962No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.
—Samuel Johnson, 1776History in its broadest aspect is a record of man’s migrations from one environment to another.
—Ellsworth Huntington, 1919Punishment is a sort of medicine.
—Aristotle, c. 340 BCOut of the crooked timber of humanity no straight thing was ever made.
—Immanuel Kant, 1784Understanding is a very dull occupation.
—Gertrude Stein, 1937Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
—Saint Augustine, c. 400In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
—Colette, 1944A bad reputation is easy to come by, painful to bear, and difficult to clear.
—Hesiod, c. 700 BC