Luck, in the great game of war, is undoubtedly lord of all.
—Arthur Griffiths, 1899
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Man is a tool-using animal. Nowhere do you find him without tools; without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
—Thomas Carlyle, 1836We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.
—Oscar Wilde, 1887The oldest voice in the world is the wind.
—Donald Culross Peattie, 1950The mind is led on, step by step, to defeat its own logic.
—Dai Vernon, 1994Conjecturing a Climate
Of unsuspended Suns –
Adds poignancy to Winter
The Revolution is made by man, but man must forge his revolutionary spirit from day to day.
—Che Guevara, 1968Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god.
—Jean Rostand, 1939A great step toward independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.
—Seneca the Younger, c. 60What will not attract a man’s stare at sea?—a gull, a turtle, a flying fish!
—Richard Burton, 1883My language is the common prostitute that I turn into a virgin.
—Karl Kraus, c. 1910All men recognize the right of revolution, that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable.
—Henry David Thoreau, 1849Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with the necessities.
—John Lothrop Motley, 1858