My stern chase after time is, to borrow a simile from Tom Paine, like the race of a man with a wooden leg after a horse.
—John Quincy Adams, 1844
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Once you hear the details of a victory it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
—Jean-Paul Sartre, 1951One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.
—Oscar Wilde, 1894Youth, youth, springtime of beauty.
—Anthem of the National Fascist Party, c. 1924Happiness does not dwell in herds, nor yet in gold.
—Democritus, c. 420 BCInsurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.
—Wendell Phillips, 1859I used to think that everyone was just being funny. But now I don’t know. I mean, how can you tell?
—Andy Warhol, 1970Industrialism is the religion with “the machine” as the god going to answer all the prayers. Communism and capitalism were just competing sects.
—Dora Russell, 1983Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
—Theodore Roosevelt, 1903Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
—Herman Melville, 1851I do love cricket—it’s so very English.
—Sarah Bernhardt, c. 1908No one makes a revolution by himself, and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand.
—George Sand, 1851How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.
—Søren Kierkegaard, 1843