Many are the wonders of the world, and none so wonderful as man.
—Sophocles, c. 441 BC
Archive
Quotes
Friendship is not possible between two women, one of whom is very well dressed.
—Laurie Colwin, 1978Curse on all laws but those which love has made.
—Alexander Pope, 1717A bad reputation is easy to come by, painful to bear, and difficult to clear.
—Hesiod, c. 700 BCOil dependency is not just an economic attachment but appears as a kind of cognitive compulsion.
—Peter Hitchcock, 2010What keeps the democracy alive at all but the hatred of excellence, the desire of the base to see no head higher than their own?
—Mary Renault, 1956The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
—Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1851Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.
—Samuel Johnson, c. 1770One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
—E.B. White, 1958There is no profit without another’s loss.
—Roman proverbThis is not a clash between civilizations. It is a clash about civilization.
—Tony Blair, 2006Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain there would be no life.
—John Updike, 1989Men worry over the great number of diseases, while doctors worry over the scarcity of effective remedies.
—Bian Qiao, c. 500 BC