If you stain clear water with filth, you will never find a drink.
—Aeschylus, 458 BC
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There is no happiness like that of a young couple in a little house they have built themselves in a place of beauty and solitude.
—Annie Proulx, 2008I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king.
—Elizabeth I, 1588Does anybody really want to attend to cities other than to flee, fleece, privatize, butcher, or decimate them?
—Jane Holtz Kay, 1992The universe is an object of thought at least as much as it is a means of satisfying needs.
—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1962Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own thoughts, unguarded.
—The Dhammapada, c. 400 BCYou never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
—Cormac McCarthy, 2005Happiness does not dwell in herds, nor yet in gold.
—Democritus, c. 420 BCHumiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
—John Donne, c. 1629Spring 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, 1962There is no art without Eros.
—Max Frisch, 1983Life is the art of being well deceived.
—William Hazlitt, c. 1817The true mission of American sports is to prepare young men for war.
—Dwight D. Eisenhower, c. 1952