Appearances often are deceiving.
—Aesop, c. 550 BC
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Greeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water.
—Zadie Smith, 2000It is remarkable that only small birds properly sing.
—Charles Darwin, 1871There’s plenty of water in the universe without life, but nowhere is there life without water.
—Sylvia Alice Earle, 1995Avoid the law—the first loss is generally the least.
—Hannah Farnham Sawyer Lee, 1844Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1886It would seem that in history it’s never a tooth for a tooth, but a thousand, a hundred thousand for one.
—Sybille Bedford, 1963There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1891Rejoice, young man, while you are young, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth. Follow the inclination of your heart and the desire of your eyes, but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.
—Book of Ecclesiastes, c. 200 BCTrue friendship withstands time, distance, and silence.
—Isabel Allende, 2000Written laws are like spiderwebs: they will catch, it is true, the weak and poor but would be torn in pieces by the rich and powerful.
—Anacharsis, c. 550 BCI love everyone now that I have gray hair.
—Polatkin, c. 1855My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968