One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
—André Gide, 1926
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To be sick is to enjoy monarchal prerogatives.
—Charles Lamb, 1833Spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings are strangely silent where once they were filled with the beauty of birdsong.
—Rachel Carson, 1962I’ve been on a calendar, but never on time.
—Marilyn Monroe, 1962If they prescribe a lot of remedies for some sickness or other, it means that the sickness is incurable.
—Anton Chekhov, 1904The man in constant fear is every day condemned.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BCSick, irritated, and the prey to a thousand discomforts, I go on with my labor like a true workingman, who, with sleeves rolled up, in the sweat of his brow, beats away at his anvil, not caring whether it rains or blows, hails or thunders.
—Gustave Flaubert, 1845I have a terrible memory; I never forget a thing.
—Edith Konecky, 1976One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.
—Oscar Wilde, 1894In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.
—Herodotus, 440 BCThe appointed thing comes at the appointed time in the appointed way.
—Myrtle Reed, 1910Life is the art of being well deceived.
—William Hazlitt, c. 1817The only function of a school is to make self-education easier.
—Isaac Asimov, 1974