The appointed thing comes at the appointed time in the appointed way.
—Myrtle Reed, 1910
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The snotgreen sea. The scrotumtightening sea.
—James Joyce, 1922Most 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, 1834Revolutions never go backward.
—Thomas Skidmore, 1829Repetition is the mother of education.
—Jean Paul, 1807I was born at a very early age. Before I had time to regret it, I was four and a half years old.
—Groucho Marx, 1959The Revolution is made by man, but man must forge his revolutionary spirit from day to day.
—Che Guevara, 1968I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.
—Michelangelo Antonioni, 1967Plough deep while sluggards sleep.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1758If not us, who? If not now, when?
—Czech slogan, 1989How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do.
—William James, 1902The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of a gun.
—P.G. Wodehouse, 1929Everything that has wings is beyond the reach of the law.
—Joseph Joubert, 1791