My language is the common prostitute that I turn into a virgin.
—Karl Kraus, c. 1910
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There are twelve hours in the day, and above fifty in the night.
—Madame de Sévigné, 1671The noblest kind of retribution is not to become like your enemy.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 175How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do.
—William James, 1902Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.
—Willa Cather, 1918The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
—Virginia Woolf, 1921An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
—George Eliot, 1866There will always be a lost dog somewhere that will prevent me from being happy.
—Jean Anouilh, 1934The United States has virtually set up an empire on impounded and redistributed water.
—Charles P. Berkey, 1946You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.
—Leon TrotskyI must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
—Anaïs Nin, 1950One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
—E.B. White, 1977A change of fortune hurts a wise man no more than a change of the moon.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1732