No time to marry, no time to settle down, I’m a young woman, and ain’t done runnin’ round.
—Bessie Smith, 1926
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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
—E.B. White, 1944The history of the land has been written very largely in water.
—John Hodgdon Bradley Jr., 1935I’ve been on more laps than a napkin.
—Mae WestIf we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.
—Francis Bacon, 1615Fire destroys that which feeds it.
—Simone Weil, c. 1940A tree’s a tree. How many more do you need to look at?
—Ronald Reagan, 1965We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.
—Oscar Wilde, 1887A change in the weather is sufficient to create the world and oneself anew.
—Marcel Proust, c. 1920The deed is everything, the glory naught.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1832Nobody, sir, dies willingly.
—Antiphanes, c. 370 BCEvery country has the government it deserves.
—Joseph de Maistre, 1811We wish away whole years, and travel through time as through a country filled with many wild and empty wastes, which we would fain hurry over, that we may arrive at those several little settlements or imaginary points of rest which are dispersed up and down in it.
—Joseph Addison, 1711