Animals are such agreeable friends—they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
—George Eliot, 1857
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There is no blindness more insidious, more fatal, than this race for profit.
—Helen Keller, 1928However harmless a thing is, if the law forbids it, most people will think it wrong.
—W. Somerset Maugham, 1896Lord, I do not ask that thou shouldst give me wealth; only show me where it is, and I will attend to the rest.
—Kate Douglas Wiggin, 1898It is the little causes, long continued, which are considered as bringing about the greatest changes of the earth.
—James Hutton, 1795Memories are like corks left out of bottles. They swell. They no longer fit.
—Harriet Doerr, 1978A tree’s a tree. How many more do you need to look at?
—Ronald Reagan, 1965The one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.
—Salvador Dalí, 1953Everyone should know nowadays the unimportance of the photographic in art—that truth, life, or reality is an organic thing which the poetic imagination can represent or suggest, in essence, only through transformation, through changing into other forms than those which were merely present in appearance.
—Tennessee Williams, 1944Being thus arrived in good harbor, and brought safe to land, they fell upon their knees and blessed the God of heaven who had brought them over the vast and furious ocean and delivered them from all the perils and miseries thereof, again to set their feet on the firm and stale earth, their proper element.
—William Bradford, 1630Ocean. A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man—who has no gills.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
—Anthony Trollope, 1862I think we are inexterminable, like flies and bedbugs.
—Robert Frost, 1959