We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us but for ours to amuse them.
—Evelyn Waugh, 1963
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The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
—Edward Gibbon, 1788God sells us all things at the price of labor.
—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1500If the people be the governors, who shall be governed?
—John Cotton, c. 1636We cannot say what the woman might be physically, if the girl were not allowed all the freedom of the boy in romping, climbing, swimming, playing whoop and ball.
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1848Even though counting heads is not an ideal way to govern, at least it is better than breaking them.
—Learned Hand, 1932Why is a ship under sail more poetical than a hog in a high wind? The hog is all nature, the ship is all art.
—Lord Byron, 1821If we wait for a pandemic to appear, it will be too late to prepare.
—George W. Bush, 2005Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
—Albert Camus, 1951Happiness (as the mathematicians might say) lies on a curve, and we approach it only by asymptote.
—Christopher Morley, 1919Can you take your country with you on the soles of your shoes?
—Georg Büchner, 1835I have yet, I believe, some years in store, for I have a good state of health and a happy mind, and I take care of both by nourishing the first with temperance and the latter with abundance. This, I believe, you will allow to be the true philosophy of life.
—Thomas Paine, 1803And then, sir, there is this consideration: that if the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up and, claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system.
—Samuel Johnson, 1791