#what

It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#against #among #been #before #care

From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea. ↗

— Algernon Charles Swinburne

#brief #dead #even #ever #fear

I believe the military should be wary of diplomacy until war is declared; then the State Department should keep its nose out and let the military do whatever is necessary to win. ↗

— Stuart Symington

#declared #department #diplomacy #i #i believe

Very few of us have any idea whatsoever of what life is like living in a goldfish bowl, except, of course, for those of us who are goldfish. ↗

— Graham Taylor

#bowl #course #except #few #goldfish

The Chancellor also in effect asks us to bargain away whatever obligation or interest we have as regards the neutrality of Belgium. We could not entertain that bargain either. ↗

— Edward Grey

#asks #away #bargain #belgium #chancellor

Otherwise, my whole career has just been flinging myself at whatever is most overdue first and letting everything else stack up. ↗

— Cathy Guisewite

#career #else #everything #first #just

Whatever your fight, don't be ladylike. ↗

— Mother Jones

#ladylike #whatever #your

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#been #evidence #fact #held #opinion

Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age. ↗