Money is mourned with deeper sorrow than friends or kindred.
—Juvenal, 128
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One must love people a good deal whom one takes pains to convince or instruct.
—Mary de la Riviere Manley, 1720The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
—Virginia Woolf, 1921At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.
—Rose Macaulay, 1925I have loved the stars too truly to be fearful of the night.
—Sarah Williams, 1868I can’t see (or feel) the conflict between love and religion. To me they’re the same thing.
—Elizabeth Bowen, c. 1970To hold a throne is luck; to bestow it, virtue.
—Seneca the Younger, c. 45Where shall I, of wandering weary, find my resting place at last?
—Heinrich Heine, 1827The future is no more uncertain than the present.
—Walt Whitman, 1856Sick, irritated, and the prey to a thousand discomforts, I go on with my labor like a true workingman, who, with sleeves rolled up, in the sweat of his brow, beats away at his anvil, not caring whether it rains or blows, hails or thunders.
—Gustave Flaubert, 1845I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received.
—Antonio Porchia, 1943I used to do drugs. I still do, but I used to, too.
—Mitch Hedberg, 1999I do not mean to call an elephant a vulgar animal, but if you think about him carefully, you will find that his nonvulgarity consists in such gentleness as is possible to elephantine nature—not in his insensitive hide, nor in his clumsy foot, but in the way he will lift his foot if a child lies in his way; and in his sensitive trunk, and still more sensitive mind, and capability of pique on points of honor.
—John Ruskin, 1860