Animals are such agreeable friends—they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
—George Eliot, 1857
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Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.
—Henry David Thoreau, 1852Avoid the talk of men. For talk is mischievous, light, and easily raised, but hard to bear and difficult to be rid of. Talk never wholly dies away when many people voice her: even talk is in some ways divine.
—Hesiod, c. 700 BCI don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.
—Ray Bradbury, 1992Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury—to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
—Albert Einstein, 1931Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.
—Norman Douglas, 1917There is no work of human hands which time does not wear away and reduce to dust.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 46 BCTo need to dominate others is to need others. The commander is dependent.
—Fernando Pessoa, c. 1935How can we bear misfortune most easily? If we see our enemies faring worse.
—Thales of Miletus, c. 585 BCAn injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 1746God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees and flowers and clouds and stars.
—Martin LutherHealth can make money, but money cannot make health.
—Maria Edgeworth, 1833A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always count on the support of Paul.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1944