Every fool becomes a philosopher after ten days of rain.
—Clover Adams, 1882
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
—Tennessee Williams, 1953Life isn’t all beer and skittles, but beer and skittles, or something better of the same sort, must form a good part of every Englishman’s education.
—Thomas Hughes, 1857What hath night to do with sleep?
—John Milton, 1637There is a time to battle against nature, and a time to obey her. True wisdom lies in making the right choice.
—Arthur C. Clarke, 1979Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.
—D.H. Lawrence, 1908Profit is profit even in Mecca.
—Nigerian proverbThose who go overseas find a change of climate, not a change of soul.
—Horace, c. 20 BCPower is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
—Henry Kissinger, 1972Memories are hunting horns
whose noise dies away in the wind.
The world began without man, and it will end without him.
—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1955Cities are the abyss of the human species.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762Take back your golden fiddles, and we’ll beat to open sea.
—Rudyard Kipling, 1892