The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
—Basho, c. 1690
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The sea hath fish for every man.
—William Camden, 1605Business is other people’s money.
—Delphine de Girardin, 1852Among all nations, through the darkest polytheism glimmer some faint sparks of monotheism.
—Immanuel Kant, 1781It is impossible to translate the poets. Can you translate music?
—Voltaire, c. 1732Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity. It is the past, not the dizzy present, that is the best door to the future.
—Camille Paglia, 1992He alone who owns the youth gains the future.
—Adolf Hitler, 1935All progress is based upon a universal, innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1890For sooner will men hold fire in their mouths than keep a secret.
—Petronius, c. 60To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the need for thought.
—Henri Poincaré, 1903Travelers, poets, and liars are three words all of one significance.
—Richard Brathwaite, 1631Just to fill the hour—that is happiness.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
—Anaïs Nin, 1950