Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes and pompous in the grave.
—Thomas Browne, 1658
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No free man shall be taken or imprisoned or dispossessed or outlawed or exiled, or in any way destroyed, nor will we go upon him, nor will we send against him except by the lawful judgment of his peers or by the law of the land.
—Magna Carta, 1215Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands, and goes to work.
—Carl Sandburg, 1959my mind is
a big hunk of irrevocable nothing
One form of loneliness is to have a memory and no one to share it with.
—Phyllis Rose, 1991The gratitude is greater than the gift.
—Pierre Corneille, 1641Most 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, 1834Words pay no debts.
—William Shakespeare, 1601Pictures made in childhood are painted in bright hues.
—Kate Douglas Wiggin, 1886The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
—Edward Gibbon, 1788A person who sees only fashion in fashion is a fool.
—Honoré de Balzac, 1830Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.
—Norman Douglas, 1917Yes to a market economy, no to a market society.
—Lionel Jospin, 1998