Modesty is a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1615
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Hang work! I wish that all the year were holiday; I am sure that Indolence—indefeasible Indolence—is the true state of man.
—Charles Lamb, 1805I tell you, there is such a thing as creative hate!
—Willa Cather, 1915One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats.
—Iris Murdoch, 1978To ensure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough; a police force is needed as well.
—Albert Camus, 1951All revolutions devour their own children.
—Ernst Röhm, 1933There is much difference between imitating a good man, and counterfeiting him.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1738If the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet.
—Charles M. Allen, 1967The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit has made permanent.
—Marcel Proust, 1919Alcohol is the monarch of liquids.
—Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, 1825I am invariably of the politics of the people at whose table I sit, or beneath whose roof I sleep.
—George Borrow, 1843When we define democracy now, it must still be as a thing hoped for but not seen.
—Pearl S. Buck, 1941God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees and flowers and clouds and stars.
—Martin Luther