Water, thou hast no taste, no color, no odor; canst not be defined, art relished while ever mysterious.
—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 1939
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I don’t believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
—Woody Allen, 1971The character which results from wealth is that of a prosperous fool.
—Aristotle, c. 322 BCAnimals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it.
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, 1821It is permitted to learn even from an enemy.
—Ovid, c. 8The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.
—Agnes Repplier, 1929Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.
—Marlene Dietrich, 1962If a king loves music, there is little wrong in the land.
—Mencius, c. 330 BCI had rather be in a state of misery and envied for my supposed happiness than in a state of happiness and pitied for my supposed misery.
—Elizabeth Inchbald, 1793The sadness of the end of a career of an older athlete, with the betrayal of his body, is mirrored in the rest of us. Consciously or not, we know: there, soon, go I.
—Ira Berkow, 1987A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
—Jane Austen, 1814I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.
—Xenocrates, c. 350 BCFor a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.
—Richard Feynman, 1986