Society as a whole must be converted into a gigantic school.
—Che Guevara, 1965
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Happiness is not something you can catch and lock up in a vault like wealth. Happiness is nothing but everyday living seen through a veil.
—Zora Neale Hurston, 1939Scandal begins where the police leave off.
—Karl Kraus, 1909It’s your business when your neighbor’s wall is in flames.
—Horace, 19 BCThere’s plenty of fire in the coldest flint!
—Rachel Field, 1939Once suspicion is aroused, everything feeds it.
—Amelia Edith Barr, 1885Most authors seek fame, but I seek for justice—a holier impulse than ever entered into the ambitious struggles of the votaries of that fickle, flirting goddess.
—Davy Crockett, 1834All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it.
—Henry David Thoreau, 1849’Tis the sport to have the engineer / Hoist with his own petard.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1600One great reason why many children abandon themselves wholly to silly sports and trifle away all their time insipidly is because they have found their curiosity baulked and their inquiries neglected.
—John Locke, 1693The belly is the reason why man does not mistake himself for a god.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1886The future...something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
—C.S. Lewis, 1941Till taught by pain, / Men really know not what good water’s worth.
—Lord Byron, 1819