As the saying goes, an old woman is always uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb.
—Chinua Achebe, 1958
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Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.
—André Gide, 1897The workers are the saviors of society, the redeemers of the race.
—Eugene V. Debs, 1905I think we are inexterminable, like flies and bedbugs.
—Robert Frost, 1959Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
—Oscar Wilde, 1890There is no greater sorrow than to recall a happy time in the midst of wretchedness.
—Dante Alighieri, c. 1321It would be madness, and inconsistency, to suppose that things which have never yet been performed can be performed without employing some hitherto untried means.
—Francis Bacon, 1620An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.
—James Russell Lowell, c. 1865I sometimes think of what future historians will say of us. A single sentence will suffice for modern man: he fornicated and read the papers.
—Albert Camus, 1957Money, not morality, is the principle of commercial nations.
—Thomas JeffersonEducation is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
—Joseph Stalin, 1934If you were to ask me if I’d ever had the bad luck to miss my daily cocktail, I’d have to say that I doubt it; where certain things are concerned, I plan ahead.
—Luis Buñuel, 1983In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1878