If anything affects your eye, you hasten to have it removed; if anything affects your mind, you postpone the cure for a year.
—Horace, 20 BC
Archive
Quotes
The sea receives us in a proper way only when we are without clothes.
—Pliny the Elder, 77The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
—L.P. Hartley, 1953Water, thou hast no taste, no color, no odor; canst not be defined, art relished while ever mysterious.
—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 1939There is a vital force in rumor. Though crushed to earth, to all intents and purposes buried, it can rise again without apparent effort.
—Eleanor Robson Belmont, 1957We need strength, we need energy, we need quickness, and we need brain in this country to turn it around.
—Donald Trump, 2015I take it as a prime cause of the present confusion of society that it is too sickly and too doubtful to use pleasure frankly as a test of value.
—Rebecca West, 1939Repetition is the mother of education.
—Jean Paul, 1807A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.
—Aldous Huxley, 1934What one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how to learn.
—Henry Adams, 1907Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one’s bath like a lump of sugar.
—Pablo Picasso, 1929What is life but organized energy?
—Arthur C. Clarke, 1958God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees and flowers and clouds and stars.
—Martin Luther