Life isn’t all beer and skittles, but beer and skittles, or something better of the same sort, must form a good part of every Englishman’s education.
—Thomas Hughes, 1857
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The people are the foundation of the state. If the foundations are firm, the state will be tranquil.
—Classic of History, c. 400 BCFire is a natural symbol of life and passion, though it is the one element in which nothing can actually live.
—Susanne K. Langer, 1942When arms speak, the laws are silent.
—Cicero, 52 BCRivalry adds so much to the charms of one’s conquests.
—Louisa May Alcott, 1866I don’t believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.
—Coretta Scott King, 1994Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1921Show me someone who never gossips, and I’ll show you someone who isn’t interested in people.
—Barbara Walters, 1975Pictures made in childhood are painted in bright hues.
—Kate Douglas Wiggin, 1886Wants keep pace with wealth always.
—Timothy Titcomb, 1859Curse on all laws but those which love has made.
—Alexander Pope, 1717Those things are better which are perfected by nature than those which are finished by art.
—Cicero, c. 45 BCWe are to go to law never to revenge, but only to repair.
—Samuel Pepys, 1661