“Seven days without laughter makes one weak.”
Cartoonist Mort Walker, quoted in the York, Pa., Daily Record
“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
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George Orwell, quoted in National Review
“Those who go searching for love only make manifest their own lovelessness.”
D.H. Lawrence, quoted in the London Guardian
“Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”
Franz Kafka, quoted in the Hicksville, N.Y., Illustrated News
“Unemployment is capitalism’s way of getting you to plant a garden.”
Author Orson Scott Card, quoted in the Montreal Gazette
“Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.”
W. Somerset Maugham, quoted in the New Statesman
