Revolution can never be forecast; it cannot be foretold; it comes of itself. Revolution is brewing and is bound to flare up.
—Vladimir Lenin, 1918
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The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of all true art and science.
—Albert Einstein, 1930I’ve been bathing in the poem / Of star-infused and milky sea / Devouring the azure greens.
—Arthur Rimbaud, 1871Other nations use “force”; we Britons alone use “might.”
—Evelyn Waugh, 1938The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.
—Vladimir Nabokov, 1941A hick town is one where there is no place to go where you shouldn’t go.
—Alexander Woollcott, c. 1935One thing alone not even God can do: to make undone whatever has been done.
—Aristotle, c. 350 BCHad Cleopatra’s nose been shorter, the whole face of the world would have changed.
—Blaise Pascal, 1658Only the little people pay taxes.
—Leona Helmsley, 1989We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
—Jonathan Swift, 1706Do not ask me to be kind; just ask me to act as though I were.
—Jules Renard, 1898A family’s photograph album is generally about the extended family—and, often, is all that remains of it.
—Susan Sontag, 1977I have always found it in mine own experience an easier matter to devise many and profitable inventions than to dispose of one of them to the good of the author himself.
—Hugh Plat, 1595