One should always have one’s boots on and be ready to leave.
—Michel de Montaigne, 1580Quotes
Whatsoever was the father of a disease, an ill diet was the mother.
—George Herbert, 1651There’s plenty of fire in the coldest flint!
—Rachel Field, 1939The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.
—Germaine Greer, 1970The one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.
—Salvador Dalí, 1953Conjecturing a Climate
Of unsuspended Suns –
Adds poignancy to Winter
Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.
—Florence King, 1989It is hard when nature does not respect your intentions, and she never does exactly respect them.
—Wendell Berry, 1985To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the need for thought.
—Henri Poincaré, 1903The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
—Virginia Woolf, 1921Secrecy lies at the very core of power.
—Elias Canetti, 1960It’s the educated barbarian who is the worst: he knows what to destroy.
—Helen MacInnes, 1963I have learned much from disease which life could never have taught me anywhere else.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1830