Quotes

There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

—Kathleen Norris, 1931

You can’t find the soul with a scalpel.

—Gustave Flaubert, c. 1880

The gratitude is greater than the gift.

—Pierre Corneille, 1641

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

—Marlene Dietrich, 1962

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.

—Mark Twain, 1894

Seek not water, only show you are thirsty, / That water may spring up all around you.

—Rumi, c. 1260

One of the important requirements for learning how to cook is that you also learn how to eat.

—Julia Child, 2001

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

—Erica Jong, 1973

The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.

—Donald Barthelme, 1964

In real friendship the judgment, the genius, the prudence of each party become the common property of both.

—Maria Edgeworth, 1787

The sea hath fish for every man.

—William Camden, 1605

The more religious a country is, the more crimes are committed in it.

—Napoleon Bonaparte, 1817

All pain is one malady with many names.

—Antiphanes, c. 400 BC

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