The future comes like an unwelcome guest.
—Edmund Gosse, 1873
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See one promontory (said Socrates of old), one mountain, one sea, one river, and see all.
—Robert Burton, c. 1620You never enjoy the world aright, till the sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens, and crowned with the stars.
—Thomas Traherne, c. 1670If you must take care that your opinions do not differ in the least from those of the person with whom you are talking, you might just as well be alone.
—Yoshida Kenko, c. 1330The deed is everything, the glory naught.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1832More pernicious nonsense was never devised by man than treaties of commerce.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1880A criminal may improve and become a decent member of society. A foreigner cannot improve. Once a foreigner, always a foreigner. There is no way out for him.
—George Mikes, 1946It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
—The Bible’Tis the sport to have the engineer / Hoist with his own petard.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1600Our crime against criminals is that we treat them as villains.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1898To call a fashion wearable is the kiss of death. No new fashion worth its salt is ever wearable.
—Eugenia Sheppard, 1960Like a broken gong be still, be silent. Know the stillness of freedom where there is no more striving.
—Siddhartha Gautama, c. 500 BCThe eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
—Albert Einstein, 1936