The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
—Yves Saint Laurent, 1978
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All streams run to the sea, but the sea is not full.
—Book of Ecclesiastes, c. 250 BCIs it only the mouth and belly which are injured by hunger and thirst? Men’s minds are also injured by them.
—Mencius, 300 BCOne of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
—E.B. White, 1958Man punishes the action, but God the intention.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732What is the city but the people?
—William Shakespeare, 1608Everyone lives by selling something.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1892If there was ever a just war since the world began, it is this in which America is now engaged.
—Thomas Paine, 1778I detest war. It spoils armies.
—Grand Duke Constantine of Russia, c. 1820Is this dying? Is this all? Is this all that I feared when I prayed against a hard death? Oh, I can bear this! I can bear it!
—Cotton Mather, 1728I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1902How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do.
—William James, 1902We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us but for ours to amuse them.
—Evelyn Waugh, 1963