Little folks become their little fate.
—Horace, c. 20 BC
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Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1665To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891I do love cricket—it’s so very English.
—Sarah Bernhardt, c. 1908Dance tunes are always right.
—Dylan Thomas, 1936Do not lessen the time of following desire, for the wasting of time is an abomination to the spirit.
—Ptahhotep, c. 2350 BCTelevision has made dictatorship impossible, but democracy unbearable.
—Shimon Peres, 1995If you can’t go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.
—Margaret Atwood, 2005To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel that discernment is but a hand playing with finely ordered variety on the chords of emotion—a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge. One may have that condition by fits only.
—George Eliot, c. 1872Nobody works as hard for his money as the man who marries it.
—Kin HubbardWhatsoever is, is in God.
—Benedict de Spinoza, 1677Nothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self; for what we wish, that we readily believe.
—Demosthenes, 349 BCTo escape its wretched lot, the populace has three ways, two imaginary and one real. The first two are the rum shop and the church; the third is the social revolution.
—Mikhail Bakunin, 1871