Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other.

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

George Bernard Shaw

You, dear reader, have now two accounts to choose between and there can be no doubt which is most probable.

Alasdair Gray

May God be gracious to each lonely one who walks in silence towards the setting sun.

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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

Jean de La Fontaine

In a democracy the majority of citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority...and that oppression of the majority will extend to far great number, and will be carried on with much greater fury, than can almost ever be apprehended from the dominion of a single sceptre. Under a cruel prince they have the plaudits of the people to animate their generous constancy under their sufferings; but those who are subjected to wrong under multitudes are deprived of all external consolation: they seem deserted by mankind, overpowered by a conspiracy of their whole species.

Edmund Burke, Reflections on the

If you can walk you can dance. If you can talk you can sing.

Zimbabwe Proverb

The idea of being famous is a lot better than the reality.

Tom Felton

There is a question for which we will never know the answer: had the U.S. not launched the Contra war to overthrow the Sandinista government, would they have succeeded in bringing socioeconomic justice to the people of Nicaragua?

Bianca Jagger

I don't trust anybody who didn't inhale.

Peter Fonda

To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Thus to the Lord doth Asha, the Truth, reply: No guide is known who can shelter the world from woe, None who knows what moves and works Thy lofty plans.

Zoroaster

Oh, if I had Orpheus' voice and poetry with which to move the Dark Maid and her Lord, I'd call you back, dear love, from the world below. I'd go down there for you. Charon or the grim King's dog could not prevent me then from carrying you up into the fields of light.

Euripides