One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
—E.B. White, 1977
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It is hard when nature does not respect your intentions, and she never does exactly respect them.
—Wendell Berry, 1985At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.
—Rose Macaulay, 1925It is noble to die before doing anything that deserves death.
—Anaxandrides, c. 376I am sure of this: that if everybody was to drink their bottle a day, there would not be half the disorders in the world there are now.
—Jane Austen, c. 1798The gods play games with men as balls.
—Plautus, c. 200 BCI am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
—Thomas Hobbes, 1679Speech is the mirror of the soul; as a man speaks, so is he.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BCA man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
—James Joyce, 1922In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.
—Michel Foucault, 1975The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin.
—Heinrich Heine, 1827History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.
—Theodor Adorno, c. 1946There is no blindness more insidious, more fatal, than this race for profit.
—Helen Keller, 1928