Give us the child for eight years and it will be a Bolshevist forever.
—Vladimir Lenin, 1923
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Sick, irritated, and the prey to a thousand discomforts, I go on with my labor like a true workingman, who, with sleeves rolled up, in the sweat of his brow, beats away at his anvil, not caring whether it rains or blows, hails or thunders.
—Gustave Flaubert, 1845Give us this day our television, and an automobile, but deliver us from freedom.
—Jean-Luc Godard, 1966Love lasteth as long as the money endureth.
—William Caxton, 1476To blow and to swallow at the same time is not easy; I cannot at the same time be here and also there.
—Plautus, c. 200 BCRevolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous.
—Pierre Boulez, 1989The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
—John Locke, 1695Those things are better which are perfected by nature than those which are finished by art.
—Cicero, c. 45 BCIt’s the educated barbarian who is the worst: he knows what to destroy.
—Helen MacInnes, 1963Happiness (as the mathematicians might say) lies on a curve, and we approach it only by asymptote.
—Christopher Morley, 1919What timid man does not avoid contact with the sick, fearing lest he contract a disease so near?
—Ovid, c. 10In the country gossip is a pastime; in the city it is a warfare.
—W.M.L. Jay, 1870Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.
—William Makepeace Thackeray, 1847