I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute, where no Catholic prelate would tell the president (should he be a Catholic) how to act and no Protestant minister would tell his parishioners for whom to vote.
—John F. Kennedy, 1960
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A god cannot procure death for himself, even if he wished it, which, so numerous are the evils of life, has been granted to man as our chief good.
—Pliny the Elder, c. 77To put one’s trust in God is only a longer way of saying that one will chance it.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1890Secrets are rarely betrayed or discovered according to any program our fear has sketched out.
—George Eliot, 1860Music is our myth of the inner life.
—Susanne K. Langer, 1942They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
—Francis Bacon, 1605Fame will go by and, so long, I’ve had you, fame. If it goes by, I’ve always known it was fickle. So at least it’s something I experienced, but that’s not where I live.
—Marilyn Monroe, 1962To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891Anyone who in discussion quotes authority uses his memory rather than his intellect.
—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1500Today’s friend may be tomorrow’s foe.
—Sophocles, 440 BCOnce a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
—Tacitus, c. 100Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1776