It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me.
—Martin Luther King Jr., 1962
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One may like the love and despise the lover.
—George Farquhar, 1706Any serious attempt to do anything worthwhile is ritualistic.
—Derek Walcott, 1986By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.
—Confucius, c. 500 BCAnyone who doesn’t know foreign languages knows nothing of his own.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1821Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903Alas! We are ridiculous animals.
—Horace Walpole, 1777By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.
—Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1955That which is evil is soon learned.
—John Ray, 1670Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
—Lucretius, c. 58 BCDon’t you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up?
—D.H. Lawrence, 1920Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.
—Plautus, c. 200 BCThe world began without man, and it will end without him.
—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1955