There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.
—Kathleen Norris, 1931Quotes
You can’t find the soul with a scalpel.
—Gustave Flaubert, c. 1880The gratitude is greater than the gift.
—Pierre Corneille, 1641Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.
—Marlene Dietrich, 1962If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
—Mark Twain, 1894Seek not water, only show you are thirsty, / That water may spring up all around you.
—Rumi, c. 1260One of the important requirements for learning how to cook is that you also learn how to eat.
—Julia Child, 2001Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
—Erica Jong, 1973The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.
—Donald Barthelme, 1964In real friendship the judgment, the genius, the prudence of each party become the common property of both.
—Maria Edgeworth, 1787The sea hath fish for every man.
—William Camden, 1605The more religious a country is, the more crimes are committed in it.
—Napoleon Bonaparte, 1817All pain is one malady with many names.
—Antiphanes, c. 400 BC