Some nights are like honey—and some like wine—and some like wormwood.
—L.M. Montgomery, 1927
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Friends are fictions founded on some single momentary experience.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1864Tomorrow we take to the mighty sea.
—Horace, 23 BCWatch with glittering eyes the whole world around you, because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
—Roald Dahl, 1990Everybody says it; and what everybody says must be true.
—James Fenimore Cooper, 1844No one makes a revolution by himself, and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand.
—George Sand, 1851Health indeed is a precious thing, to recover and preserve which we undergo any misery, drink bitter potions, freely give our goods—restore a man to his health, his purse lies open to thee.
—Robert Burton, 1621No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in vain tried to put into our heads before.
—Jonathan Swift, 1706Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.
—Aleister Crowley, 1904Man is a troublesome animal and therefore is not very manageable.
—Plato, c. 349 BCA traveler’s chief aim should be to make men wiser and better, and to improve their minds by the bad—as well as good—example of what they deliver concerning foreign places.
—Jonathan Swift, 1726Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain there would be no life.
—John Updike, 1989Emigration is easy, but immigration is something else. To flee, yes; but to be accepted?
—Victoria Wolff, 1943