Whatsoever was the father of a disease, an ill diet was the mother.
—George Herbert, 1651
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Home is the girl’s prison and the woman’s workhouse.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy till they die!
—Philip Roth, 1969We need strength, we need energy, we need quickness, and we need brain in this country to turn it around.
—Donald Trump, 2015When law can do no right,
Let it be lawful that law bar no wrong.
Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny, they have only shifted it to another shoulder.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903A functioning police state needs no police.
—William S. Burroughs, 1959Business is other people’s money.
—Delphine de Girardin, 1852Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
—H.G. Wells, 1920Education—a debt due from present to future generations.
—George Peabody, 1852Darkness endows the small and ordinary ones among mankind with poetical power.
—Thomas Hardy, 1874It’s the end of the world every day, for someone.
—Margaret Atwood, 2000What is death? A scary mask. Take it off—see, it doesn’t bite.
—Epictetus, c. 110