I would delight in music, but the music is discordant.
—Xie Lingyun, c. 425
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The day unravels what the night has woven.
—Walter Benjamin, 1929When a traveler returneth home, let him not leave the countries where he hath traveled altogether behind him.
—Francis Bacon, 1625The boy is, of all wild beasts, the most difficult to manage.
—Plato, c. 348 BCIt is impossible to live pleasurably without living wisely, well, and justly, and impossible to live wisely, well, and justly without living pleasurably.
—Epicurus, c. 300 BCA riot is at bottom the language of the unheard.
—Martin Luther King Jr., c. 1967Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.
—Samuel Johnson, c. 1770A dog starved at his master’s gate / Predicts the ruin of the state.
—William Blake, 1807Once suspicion is aroused, everything feeds it.
—Amelia Edith Barr, 1885A joke is at most a temporary rebellion against virtue, and its aim is not to degrade the human being but to remind him that he is already degraded.
—George Orwell, 1945I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1789I never practice, I always play.
—Wanda Landowska, 1953The only justification of rebellion is success.
—Thomas B. Reed, 1878