The deed is everything, the glory naught.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1832
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The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin.
—Heinrich Heine, 1827Give us the child for eight years and it will be a Bolshevist forever.
—Vladimir Lenin, 1923There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.
—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1898Information can tell us everything. It has all the answers. But they are answers to questions we have not asked, and which doubtless don’t even arise.
—Jean Baudrillard, c. 1987Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear.
—William Shakespeare, 1592Iron may break gold, but water remains whole.
—Ge Hong, c. 300Real friends offer both hard truths and soft landings.
—Anna Quindlen, 2012The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a star.
—Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, 1825Keep away from physicians. It is all probing and guessing and pretending with them. They leave it to nature to cure in her own time, but they take the credit. As well as very fat fees.
—Anthony Burgess, 1964Man is the one name belonging to every nation upon earth: there is one soul and many tongues, one spirit and various sounds; every country has its own speech, but the subjects of speech are common to all.
—Tertullian, c. 217I have given up considering happiness as relevant.
—Edward Gorey, 1974Nothing puzzles me more than time and space, and yet nothing puzzles me less, for I never think about them.
—Charles Lamb, 1810