Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHSorrows must die with the joys they outnumber.
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I’m old and the mirrors don’t lie.
LEONARD COHEN -
Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.
ARISTOTLE -
It’s strange that the newspapers don’t see a connection between their false revelations about my private life and my need for seclusion and security.
AGNETHA FALTSKOG -
We need a moral philosophy which can speak significantly of Freud and Marx and out of which aesthetic and political views can be generated. We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now, can once again be made central.
IRIS MURDOCH -
The press of Italy is free, freer than the press of any other country, so long as it supports the regime.
BENITO MUSSOLINI -
Sometimes to heal, you must first get hurt.
AARON ALLSTON -
Questioning is the piety of thought.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER -
Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.
THUCYDIDES -
I need attention. I like the attention.
BILL FOLEY -
In the course of the history of the earth innumerable events have occurred one after another, causing changes of states, all with certain lasting consequences.
BERNHARD VON COTTA -
And so she remained a mystery, something to dream about on rainy days staring at the dark holly clouds passing by. – in a bed of flowers.
JEROEN -
The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.
BASMAH BINT SAUD -
I can’t even imagine something being more fun than playing James Brown onstage.
CHADWICK BOSEMAN -
It was the most beautiful evening, with the lake as blue as a cornflower and the sky flecked with rosy clouds. They held their hard-boiled eggs in one hand and a piece of bread and butter in the other, munching happily.
ENID BLYTON -
So inspired by what it means to be a woman of substance. A woman of great poise and assertiveness.
DAU VOIRE