God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.
—J.M. Barrie, 1922
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War to the castles; peace to the cottages.
—Nicolas Chamfort, 1790The sea hath no king but God alone.
—Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1881All the married heiresses I have known have shipwrecked.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1880Take back your golden fiddles, and we’ll beat to open sea.
—Rudyard Kipling, 1892The mind is led on, step by step, to defeat its own logic.
—Dai Vernon, 1994Some folks want their luck buttered.
—Thomas Hardy, 1886It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mold, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work.
—Edward Gibbon, c. 1790Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes and pompous in the grave.
—Thomas Browne, 1658Men worry over the great number of diseases, while doctors worry over the scarcity of effective remedies.
—Bian Qiao, c. 500 BCTalk to me about the truth of religion and I’ll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I’ll listen submissively. But don’t come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don’t understand.
—C.S. Lewis, 1961The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
—Charles Darwin, 1871A human being must have occupation, if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.
—Dorothy L. Sayers, 1947