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Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea? How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.

—Sydney Smith, 1855

Animals are such agreeable friends—they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.

—George Eliot, 1857

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

—Bob Dylan, 1966

The young leading the young is like the blind leading the blind.

—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 1747

Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world: it gives women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance. I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel. The picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.

—Susan B. Anthony, 1896

Democracy, like the human organism, carries within it the seed of its own destruction.

—Veronica Wedgwood, 1946

There is no greater disaster than not to know contentment.

—Laozi, c. 550 BC

God walks among the pots and pans.

—Saint Teresa of Ávila, c. 1582

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules, and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence; in other words it is war minus the shooting.

—George Orwell, 1945

All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. The violence of revolutions is the violence of men who charge into a vacuum.

—John Kenneth Galbraith, 1977

Every man must descend into the flesh to meet mankind.

—G.K. Chesterton, 1910

Wit enables us to act rudely with impunity.

—La Rochefoucauld, 1678

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

—Abraham Lincoln, c. 1858