Friendship itself will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
—Robert Wilson Lynd, 1924
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The world is made of the very stuff of the body.
—Maurice Merleau-Ponty, 1961I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1816The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified heads, fills citified ears—as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk happy.
—Frank Lloyd Wright, 1958Rivalry adds so much to the charms of one’s conquests.
—Louisa May Alcott, 1866Disobedience, 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 Wilde, 1891Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.
—Woody Allen, 1979Luck, in the great game of war, is undoubtedly lord of all.
—Arthur Griffiths, 1899Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.
—Aleister Crowley, 1904How gloriously legible are the constellations of the heavens!
—Anthony Trollope, 1859The beginning of health lies in knowing the disease.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1615The sea hath fish for every man.
—William Camden, 1605The most hateful torment for men is to have knowledge of everything but power over nothing.
—Herodotus, c. 425 BC