Revolution begins in putting on bright colors.
—Tennessee Williams, 1944
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The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851Health can make money, but money cannot make health.
—Maria Edgeworth, 1833Of troubles none is greater than to be robbed of one’s native land.
—Euripides, 431 BCThere is a time to battle against nature, and a time to obey her. True wisdom lies in making the right choice.
—Arthur C. Clarke, 1979A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence university education.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903There ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.
—Mark Twain, 1894I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.
—Maya Angelou, 1993I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1886The freedom or immunity from coercion in matters religious, which is the endowment of persons as individuals, is also to be recognized as their right when they act in community. Religious communities are a requirement of the social nature both of man and of religion itself.
—Pope Paul VI, 1965I never even saw the use of the sea. Many a sad heart has it caused, and many a sick stomach has it occasioned! The boldest sailor climbs on board with a heavy soul and leaps on land with a light spirit.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1827In time history must become a fairy tale—it will become again what it was in the beginning.
—Novalis, c. 1798People living deeply have no fear of death.
—Anaïs Nin, 1935