Whatsoever is, is in God.
—Benedict de Spinoza, 1677
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I’m at an age when my back goes out more than I do.
—Phyllis Diller, 1981I don’t believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.
—Coretta Scott King, 1994Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
—William James, 1902Little folks become their little fate.
—Horace, c. 20 BCOf all the creatures that breathe and creep on the surface of the earth, none is more to be pitied than man.
—Homer, c. 750 BCFamous, adj. Conspicuously miserable.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. War is hell.
—William Tecumseh Sherman, 1879Memories are like corks left out of bottles. They swell. They no longer fit.
—Harriet Doerr, 1978The gratitude is greater than the gift.
—Pierre Corneille, 1641Good or ill fortune is very little at our disposal.
—David Hume, 1742That which the sober man keeps in his breast, the drunken man lets out at the lips. Astute people, when they want to ascertain a man’s true character, make him drunk.
—Martin Luther, 1569