One has to spend so many years in learning how to be happy.
—George Eliot, 1844
Archive
Quotes
Despotism subjects a nation to one tyrant—democracy to many.
—Marguerite Gardiner, 1839Some nights are like honey—and some like wine—and some like wormwood.
—L.M. Montgomery, 1927The world is wearied of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1870The affairs of the world are no more than so much trickery, and a man who toils for money or honor or whatever else in deference to the wishes of others, rather than because his own desire or needs lead him to do so, will always be a fool.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1774Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees and flowers and clouds and stars.
—Martin LutherThe whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletariat to the level of bourgeois stupidity.
—Gustave Flaubert, 1871If you can’t go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.
—Margaret Atwood, 2005The first mistake of art is to assume that it’s serious.
—Lester Bangs, 1971Every man is worth just so much as the things he busies himself with.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 175Health care delivery is one of the tragedies still in America.
—Jewel Plummer Cobb, 1989Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
—Francis Bacon, 1625