Courage and grace is a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring.
—Marlene Dietrich, 1962
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Unfortunately, humanitarianism has been the mark of an inhuman time.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1932There is no man so fortunate that there shall not be by him when he is dying some who are pleased with what is going to happen.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 175Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906Style is the image of character.
—Edward Gibbon, c. 1789Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1610Not a change for the better in our human housekeeping has ever taken place that wise and good men have not opposed it—have not prophesied that the world would wake up to find its throat cut in consequence.
—James Russell Lowell, 1884Doctors don’t know everything really. They understand matter, not spirit. And you and I live in spirit.
—William Saroyan, 1943Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.
—Joseph Joubert, 1811I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received.
—Antonio Porchia, 1943I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. War is hell.
—William Tecumseh Sherman, 1879Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, now that, and changes names as it changes in direction.
—Dante Alighieri, c. 1315What a glut of books! Who can read them? As already, we shall have a vast chaos and confusion of books; we are oppressed with them, our eyes ache with reading, our fingers with turning.
—Robert Burton, 1621