Well now, there’s a remedy for everything except death.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605
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Luck, in the great game of war, is undoubtedly lord of all.
—Arthur Griffiths, 1899I’m afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.
—Aldous Huxley, 1925The happy ending is our national belief.
—Mary McCarthy, 1947It is better to live unknown to the law.
—Irish proverbI cannot live without books, but fewer will suffice where amusement, and not use, is the only future object.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1815Big head, little wit.
—French proverbMan’s capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man’s inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
—Reinhold Niebuhr, 1944The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
—Charles Darwin, 1871If a parricide is more wicked than anyone who commits homicide—because he kills not merely a man but a near relative—without doubt worse still is he who kills himself, because there is none nearer to a man than himself.
—Saint Augustine, c. 420Out of the crooked timber of humanity no straight thing was ever made.
—Immanuel Kant, 1784In my dreams I sleep with everybody.
—Anaïs Nin, 1933Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands, and goes to work.
—Carl Sandburg, 1959