Not all heads have a brain.
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We cannot say what the woman might be physically, if the girl were not allowed all the freedom of the boy in romping, climbing, swimming, playing whoop and ball.
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1848Two things only the people anxiously desire, bread and the circus games.
—Juvenal, c. 121Those who go overseas find a change of climate, not a change of soul.
—Horace, c. 20 BCThere is no crime without precedent.
—Seneca the Younger, c. 60Because the newer methods of treatment are good, it does not follow that the old ones were bad: for if our honorable and worshipful ancestors had not recovered from their ailments, you and I would not be here today.
—Confucius, c. 515 BCWhen we see a natural style we are quite amazed and delighted, because we expected to see an author and find a man.
—Blaise Pascal, c. 1657The young man must store up, the old man must use.
—Seneca the Younger, c. 63The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
—Virginia Woolf, 1921Who hears the fishes when they cry?
—Henry David Thoreau, 1849Home is wherever I go.
—Indira Gandhi, 1955A miracle entails a degree of irrationality—not because it shocks reason, but because it makes no appeal to it.
—Emmanuel Lévinas, 1952Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do.
—Rudy Giuliani, 1999