Where shall I, of wandering weary, find my resting place at last?
—Heinrich Heine, 1827
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To be a successful father… there’s one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don’t look at it for the first two years.
—Ernest Hemingway, 1954The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.
—Marianne Moore, 1935I have always been of the mind that in a democracy, manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie knife.
—James Russell Lowell, 1873No poems can please long, nor live, that are written by water drinkers.
—Horace, 35 BCHappy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame—to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a hell!
—Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1843Those who travel heedlessly from place to place, observing only their distance from each other and attending only to their accommodation at the inn at night, set out fools, and will certainly return so.
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 1747Water, thou hast no taste, no color, no odor; canst not be defined, art relished while ever mysterious.
—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 1939What harm is there in getting knowledge and learning, were it from a sot, a pot, a fool, a winter mitten, or an old slipper?
—François Rabelais, 1533An unjust law is no law at all.
—Saint Augustine, 395More pernicious nonsense was never devised by man than treaties of commerce.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1880The worship of opinion is, at this day, the established religion of the United States.
—Harriet Martineau, 1839In every human breast, God has implanted a principle, which we call love of freedom; it is impatient of oppression and pants for deliverance.
—Phillis Wheatley, 1774