Of all the horrid hideous notes of woe, Sadder than owl-songs or the midnight blast, Is that portentous phrase 'I told you so'.
Lord Byron
To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.
George Jean Nathan
Man is a universe within himself.
Bob Marley
Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
Ambrose Bierce
If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.
Barack Obama
It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.
Charles Caleb Colton
For other nations utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered, for Americans it is just beyond the horizon.
Henry A. Kissinger
Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.
William Hazlitt
We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.
Rabindranath Tagore
Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
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