He alone who owns the youth gains the future.
—Adolf Hitler, 1935Quotes
You should never have your best trousers on when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.
—Henrik Ibsen, 1882Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.
—W.H. Auden, c. 1940Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
—Tom Robbins, 1976Those who go overseas find a change of climate, not a change of soul.
—Horace, c. 20 BCYes to a market economy, no to a market society.
—Lionel Jospin, 1998The whole secret of fencing consists but in two things, to give and not to receive.
—Molière, 1670Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.
—Gertrude Stein, 1940The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
—Edward Gibbon, 1788There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1790Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.
—Florence King, 1989Let him who desires peace prepare for war.
—Vegetius, c. 385A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
—Jane Austen, 1814