It seems not more reasonable to leave the right of printing unrestrained, because writers may be afterwards censured, than it would be to sleep with doors unbolted, because by our laws we can hang a thief.

A lady's verily is as potent as a lord's

William Shakespeare

Indigenous rights are those, which relate to indigenous people, their way of life, their land and their resources. They are connected in nature and the birthrights of indigenous people.

Joni Madraiwiwi

tanpa mimpi, orang seperti kita akan mati... - Arai

Andrea Hirata

Let us remember, when we are inclined to be disheartened, that the private soldier is a poor judge of the fortunes of a great battle.

W. R. [William Ralph] Inge

I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.

Calvin Trillin

The kind of truth that can be asserted by argument had lost all glamour, all lustre, for him, seeming no more now than another aspect of that ancient urge - much older than the desire for truth - to command attention, dominate one's fellows.

Barry Unsworth

I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.

John Burroughs

No partner in a love relationship... should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable.

May Sarton

To know nothing is the happiest life.

Desiderius Erasmus

I can keep a perfectly good eye on Simon, thank you. He's my neophyte Downworlder to mock and boss around, not yours.

Cassandra Clare

The home seems to me to be the proper sphere for the man. And certainly once a man begins to neglect his domestic duties he becomes painfully effeminate, does he not?

Oscar Wilde

Not necessity, not desire --no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything --health, food, a place to live, entertainment --they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Friedrich Nietzsche