I have been ever of the opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1844
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The law looks at no one’s face.
—Gabriel Okara, 1964A man is not idle, because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
—Victor Hugo, 1862Whole nations have melted away like balls of snow before the sun.
—Dragging Canoe, 1775The fear of war is worse than war itself.
—Seneca, c. 50I’d like to be a machine, wouldn’t you?
—Andy Warhol, 1963I don’t believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
—Woody Allen, 1971Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it, and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, c. 1790Life’s no resting, but a moving.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, c. 1795Far water cannot quench near fire.
—Japanese proverbLiving is an ailment that is relieved every sixteen hours by sleep. A palliative. Death is the cure.
—Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, c. 1790What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.
—Joseph Addison, 1711Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there.
—Susanne K. Langer, 1942