Emigration is easy, but immigration is something else. To flee, yes; but to be accepted?
—Victoria Wolff, 1943
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Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1921As peace is of all goodness, so war is an emblem, a hieroglyphic, of all misery.
—John Donne, 1622I had rather be in a state of misery and envied for my supposed happiness than in a state of happiness and pitied for my supposed misery.
—Elizabeth Inchbald, 1793Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government’s purposes are beneficent.
—Louis Brandeis, 1928The fear of the Lord is true wisdom, and he who hath it not can in no way penetrate the true secrets of magic.
—Abraham the Jew, c. 1400Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
—George Washington, 1796When the root lives on, the new leaves come back.
—Aeschylus, c. 458 BCNever make a defense or apology before you be accused.
—Charles I, 1636Friends are ourselves.
—John Donne, 1603A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated has not the art of getting drunk.
—Samuel Johnson, 1779No wise man ever wished to be younger.
—Jonathan Swift, 1706People can say what they like about the eternal verities, love and truth and so on, but nothing’s as eternal as the dishes.
—Margaret Mahy, 1985