One is never as unhappy as one thinks, nor as happy as one hopes.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1664
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It was lonesome, the leaving.
—Wetatonmi, c. 1877O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1599Whatever the pace of this technological revolution may be, the direction is clear: the lower rungs of the economic ladder are being lopped off.
—Bayard Rustin, 1965If a patient is poor, he is committed to a public hospital as “psychotic”; if he can afford the luxury of a private sanitarium, he is put there with the diagnosis of “neurasthenia”; if he is wealthy enough to be isolated in his own home under constant watch of nurses and physicians, he is simply an indisposed “eccentric.”
—Pierre Marie Janet, 1930War to the castles; peace to the cottages.
—Nicolas Chamfort, 1790Eight hours for work, eight hours for sleep, eight hours for what we will.
—Slogan of the National Labor Union of the United States, 1866No time to marry, no time to settle down, I’m a young woman, and ain’t done runnin’ round.
—Bessie Smith, 1926It is the little causes, long continued, which are considered as bringing about the greatest changes of the earth.
—James Hutton, 1795All men recognize the right of revolution, that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable.
—Henry David Thoreau, 1849Great inventors and discoverers seem to have made their discoveries and inventions, as it were, by the way, in the course of their everyday life.
—Elizabeth Charles, 1862I drink for the thirst to come.
—François Rabelais, 1535Resentment kills a fool, and envy slays the simple.
—Book of Job, c. 600 BC