Laws, like houses, lean on one another.
—Edmund Burke, 1765
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Speech is the mirror of the soul; as a man speaks, so is he.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BCWithout virtue, both riches and honor, to me, seem like the passing cloud.
—Confucius, c. 350 BCThe true mission of American sports is to prepare young men for war.
—Dwight D. Eisenhower, c. 1952Colonialism has meant selling our ore and being left with the holes.
—Samora Moisés Machel, c. 1976I hate the whole race. There is no believing a word they say—your professional poets, I mean—there never existed a more worthless set than Byron and his friends for example.
—Duke of Wellington, c. 1810These useless men ought to be cut up and served at a banquet. I really believe that athletes have less intelligence than swine.
—Dio Chrysostom, c. 95Time is a veil interposed between God and ourselves, as our eyelid is between our eye and the light.
—François-René de Chateaubriand, c. 1820The chief merit of language is clearness, and we know that nothing detracts so much from this as do unfamiliar terms.
—Galen, c. 175Travelers, poets, and liars are three words all of one significance.
—Richard Brathwaite, 1631We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.
—Anna Sewell, 1877It is strange indeed that the more we learn about how to build health, the less healthy Americans become.
—Adelle Davis, 1951Society as a whole must be converted into a gigantic school.
—Che Guevara, 1965