People revere the Constitution yet know so little about it—and that goes for some of my fellow senators.
—Robert Byrd, 2005
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Revolutionaries are greater sticklers for formality than conservatives.
—Italo Calvino, 1957Imagine a number of men in chains, all under sentence of death, some of whom are each day butchered in the sight of the others; those remaining see their own condition in that of their fellows and, looking at each other with grief and despair, await their turn. This is an image of the human condition.
—Blaise Pascal, 1669Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1928One should always have one’s boots on and be ready to leave.
—Michel de Montaigne, 1580It’s the end of the world every day, for someone.
—Margaret Atwood, 2000The history of the land has been written very largely in water.
—John Hodgdon Bradley Jr., 1935Don’t try to make a profit on a bad trade; just try to find the best place to get out.
—Linda Bradford Raschke, 1992I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do.
—Roald Dahl, 1984The mind is led on, step by step, to defeat its own logic.
—Dai Vernon, 1994All God’s children are not beautiful. Most of God’s children are, in fact, barely presentable.
—Fran Lebowitz, 1978Thou art not to learn the humors and tricks of that old bald cheater, time.
—Ben Jonson, 1601Like a broken gong be still, be silent. Know the stillness of freedom where there is no more striving.
—Siddhartha Gautama, c. 500 BC