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I’m never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things. I don’t do any thing. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don’t even do that any more.
Dorothy Parker1893–1967“The Little Hours” in Here Lies (1939)
An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936All Things Considered (1908), “On Running After One’s Hat”
With the sleep of dreams comes nightmares.
William Shakespeare1564–1616
If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
Thomas Edison1847–1931
Envy is as evil a thing as arrogance.
Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919
Everything done in weakness fails. Moral: Do nothing.
Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900
Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)
We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890)In context
If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect.
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790
Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
Aldous Huxley1894–1963Themes and Variations (1950), “Variations on a Philosopher”
Home is where you come when you run out of places.
?UnattributedClash By Night
A riot is the language of the unheard.
Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968The Other America (1968)
It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936The Catholic Church and Conversion
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
Aristotle384–322 BC
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
Dorothy Parker1893–1967“But the One on the Right” in The New Yorker (1929)