The only evidence, so far as I know, about another life is, first, that we have no evidence; and, secondly, that we are rather sorry that we have not, and wish we had.
—Robert G. Ingersoll, 1879
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It’s your business when your neighbor’s wall is in flames.
—Horace, 19 BCReputation, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others.
—Douglas Jerrold, 1840The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.
—Marianne Moore, 1935Civilization, a much-abused word, stands for a high matter quite apart from telephones and electric lights.
—Edith Hamilton, 1930The god of music dwelleth out of doors.
—Edith M. Thomas, 1887People who’ve drunk neat wine don’t care a damn.
—Hipponax, c. 550 BCAll successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. The violence of revolutions is the violence of men who charge into a vacuum.
—John Kenneth Galbraith, 1977Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there.
—Susanne K. Langer, 1942France has neither winter, summer, nor morals—apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.
—Mark Twain, 1879Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
—Joseph Stalin, 1934Courage and grace is a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring.
—Marlene Dietrich, 1962Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.
—W. Somerset Maugham, 1896