“…marriage, they say, halves one's rights and doubles one's duties.”
Louisa May Alcott book Little Women
Source: Little Women
Un Art de Vivre (The Art of Living) (1939), The Art of Marriage
“…marriage, they say, halves one's rights and doubles one's duties.”
Louisa May Alcott book Little Women
Source: Little Women
Johannes Kepler Dissertatio cum Nuncio Sidereo
Translated by Edward Rosen, Kepler's Conversation with Galileo's Sidereal Messenger (1965), p. 39
Unsourced variant translation: Provide ships or sails fit for the winds of heaven, and some will brave even that great void.
Dissertatio cum Nuncio Sidereo (1610)
Context: It is not improbable, I must point out, that there are inhabitants not only on the moon but on Jupiter too, or (as was delightfully remarked at a recent gathering of certain philosophers) that those areas are now being unveiled for the first time. But as soon as somebody demonstrates the art of flying, settlers from our species of man will not be lacking. Who would once have thought that the crossing of the wide ocean was calmer and safer than of the narrow Adriatic Sea, Baltic Sea, or English Channel? Given ships or sails adapted to the breezes of heaven, there will be those who will not shrink from even that vast expanse. Therefore, for the sake of those who, as it were, will presently be on hand to attempt this voyage, let us establish the astronomy, Galileo, you of Jupiter, and me of the moon.
Carol Moseley Braun (1947) American politician and lawyer
The US’s first Black woman senator on what Ketanji Brown Jackson brings to the Supreme Court https://www.vox.com/23015036/ketanji-brown-jackson-supreme-court-history (Apr 7, 2022)
“Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness except greed.”
Thomas Harris The Silence of the Lambs
Source: The Silence of the Lambs
David Allen (1945) American productivity consultant and author
28 June 2010 https://twitter.com/gtdguy/status/17222176055 <br class="br"> Official Twitter profile (@gtdguy) https://twitter.com/gtdguy
Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer
Variant: Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.
“The instrument of expansion of Classical civilization was a social organization, slavery.”
Carroll Quigley (1910–1977) American historian
Source: The Evolution of Civilizations (1961) (Second Edition 1979), Chapter 9, Classical Civilization, p. 270
Colin Jordan (1923–2009) British holocaust denier
"National Socialism: A Philosophical Appraisal," National Socialist World, I (1966), 5-7. Quoted in Fascism (1995), edited by Roger Griffin, p. 325.