Curse on all laws but those which love has made.
—Alexander Pope, 1717
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Every gift has a personality—that of its giver.
—Nuruddin Farah, 1992Imitate the ass in his love to his master.
—St. John Chrysostom, c. 388Envy is the basis of democracy.
—Bertrand Russell, 1930Tomorrow we take to the mighty sea.
—Horace, 23 BCThe happy ending is our national belief.
—Mary McCarthy, 1947God is alive. Magic is afoot.
—Leonard Cohen, 1966The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein, c. 1947Good or ill fortune is very little at our disposal.
—David Hume, 1742Revolutionaries are greater sticklers for formality than conservatives.
—Italo Calvino, 1957In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.
—V.S. Pritchett, 1968They say, “We only have the life of this world. We die and we live, and nothing destroys us but time.” Yet, not true knowledge have they of this—only belief.
—The Qur’an, c. 620Now there is fame! Of all—hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public—fame is by far the worst. It is the castigation by God of the artist. It is sad. It is true.
—Pablo Picasso, c. 1961