Who sees all beings in his own self, and his own self in all beings, loses all fear.
—The Upanishads, c. 800 BC
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The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended—and not to take a hint when a hint isn’t intended.
—Robert Frost, 1939Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
—Mark Twain, 1893Let the French but have England, and they won’t want to conquer it.
—Horace Walpole, 1745Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.
—G.C. Lichtenberg, c. 1780You are dust, and to dust you shall return.
—Book of Genesis, c. 800 BCThey exchange their home and sweet thresholds for exile, and seek under another sun another home.
—Virgil, c. 30 BCA person who sees only fashion in fashion is a fool.
—Honoré de Balzac, 1830We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea—whether it is to sail or to watch it—we are going back whence we came.
—John F. Kennedy, 1962Health indeed is a precious thing, to recover and preserve which we undergo any misery, drink bitter potions, freely give our goods—restore a man to his health, his purse lies open to thee.
—Robert Burton, 1621Money is mourned with deeper sorrow than friends or kindred.
—Juvenal, 128Of all the creatures that breathe and creep on the surface of the earth, none is more to be pitied than man.
—Homer, c. 750 BCNo city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.
—Cyril Connolly, 1944