Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903
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It is remarkable that only small birds properly sing.
—Charles Darwin, 1871The righteous know the needs of their animals, but the mercy of the wicked is cruel.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 500 BCEight hours for work, eight hours for sleep, eight hours for what we will.
—Slogan of the National Labor Union of the United States, 1866Conservation is not merely a thing to be enshrined in outdoor museums, but a way of living on land.
—Aldo Leopold, 1933To love a woman who scorns you is to lick honey from a thorn.
—Welsh proverbSpies are of no use nowadays. Their profession is over. The newspapers do their work instead.
—Oscar Wilde, 1895He may be a patriot for Austria, but the question is whether he is a patriot for me.
—Emperor Francis Joseph, c. 1850It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.
—Friedrich Schiller, 1781There was no treachery too base for the world to commit.
—Virginia Woolf, 1927Drive out nature with a pitchfork, and she will always come back.
—Horace, c. 25 BCThe future comes like an unwelcome guest.
—Edmund Gosse, 1873Anyone who has a child should train him to be either a physicist or a ballet dancer. Then he’ll escape.
—W.H. Auden, 1947