The king times are fast finishing. There will be blood shed like water, and tears like mist; but the peoples will conquer in the end.
—Lord Byron, 1821
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What will not attract a man’s stare at sea?—a gull, a turtle, a flying fish!
—Richard Burton, 1883No one’s serious at seventeen.
—Arthur Rimbaud, 1870The future, like everything else, is no longer quite what it used to be.
—Paul Valéry, 1931I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1886Memories are like corks left out of bottles. They swell. They no longer fit.
—Harriet Doerr, 1978If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater, suggest that he wear a tail.
—Fran Lebowitz, 1981Drugs, cataplasms, and whiskey are stupid substitutes for the dignity and potency of divine mind and its efficacy to heal.
—Mary Baker Eddy, 1908If both what is before and what is after are in this same “now,” things which happened ten thousand years ago would be simultaneous with what has happened today, and nothing would be before or after anything else.
—Aristotle, c. 330 BCDisobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made—through disobedience and through rebellion.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891We die of comfort and by conflict live.
—May Sarton, 1953Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
—John F. Kennedy, 1962There is no foreign land; it is the traveler only that is foreign.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1883