What is the city but the people?
—William Shakespeare, 1608
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War is sweet to those who don’t know it.
—Erasmus, 1508A tree’s a tree. How many more do you need to look at?
—Ronald Reagan, 1965The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified heads, fills citified ears—as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk happy.
—Frank Lloyd Wright, 1958Any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain.
—Santiago Ramón y Cajal, 1897Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968Of troubles none is greater than to be robbed of one’s native land.
—Euripides, 431 BCGod is a complex of ideas formed by the tribe, the nation, and humanity, which awake and organize social feelings and aim to link the individual to society and to bridle the zoological individualism.
—Maxim Gorky, 1913In a court of fowls, the cockroach never wins its case.
—Rwandan proverbA good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
—Arthur Miller, 1961I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1789Youth, youth, springtime of beauty.
—Anthem of the National Fascist Party, c. 1924Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other both in mind and body, to try the manners of different nations, to hear the chimes at midnight.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1881