The past is always tense and the future, perfect.
—Zadie Smith, 2000
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They exchange their home and sweet thresholds for exile, and seek under another sun another home.
—Virgil, c. 30 BCThe home is a human institution. All human institutions are open to improvement.
—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1903All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.
—Havelock Ellis, 1921Life is the art of being well deceived.
—William Hazlitt, c. 1817The march of the human mind is slow.
—Edmund Burke, 1775Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
—Frank Zappa, c. 1975I’ve never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It’s probably because they have forgotten their own.
—Margaret Atwood, 1976Do not fear the clatter of wheels, the bumps and slops in corridors. It is only turbulence.
—Romalyn Ante, 2020Why is not a rat as good as a rabbit? Why should men eat shrimps and neglect cockroaches?
—Henry Ward Beecher, 1862How like to us is that filthy beast the ape.
—Cicero, 45 BCArt transcends its limitations only by staying within them.
—Flannery O’Connor, 1964Drinking with women is as unnatural as scolding with ’em.
—William Wycherley, 1675