Childhood knows what it wants—to leave childhood behind.
—Jean Cocteau, 1947
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Very shy people don’t even want to take up the space that their body actually takes up.
—Andy Warhol, 1975By night an atheist half believes a God.
—Edward Young, c. 1745As man disappears from sight, the land remains.
—Maori proverbI love everyone now that I have gray hair.
—Polatkin, c. 1855Water is the first principle of everything.
—Thales of Miletus, c. 600 BCI have given up considering happiness as relevant.
—Edward Gorey, 1974One religion is as true as another.
—Robert Burton, 1621Today’s city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.
—Martin Oppenheimer, 1969The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified heads, fills citified ears—as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk happy.
—Frank Lloyd Wright, 1958The noblest kind of retribution is not to become like your enemy.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 175Let my epitaph be, “Here lies Joseph, who failed in everything he undertook.”
—Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II, 1790Cheating is more honorable than stealing.
—German proverb