Play, wherein persons of condition, especially ladies, waste so much of their time, is a plain instance to me that men cannot be perfectly idle; they must be doing something, for how else could they sit so many hours toiling at that which generally gives more vexation than delight to people whilst they are actually engaged in it?
—John Locke, 1693
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You must not grow used to making money out of everything. One sees more people ruined than one has seen preserved by shameful gains.
—Sophocles, c. 442 BCThere are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
—Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, 1989A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.
—Aldous Huxley, 1934Good or ill fortune is very little at our disposal.
—David Hume, 1742I’d like to be a machine, wouldn’t you?
—Andy Warhol, 1963How sweet it is to have people point and say, “There he is.”
—Persius, c. 60The true mission of American sports is to prepare young men for war.
—Dwight D. Eisenhower, c. 1952I never yet could make out why men are so fond of hunting; they often hurt themselves, often spoil good horses, and tear up the fields—and all for a hare or a fox or a stag that they could get more easily some other way.
—Anna Sewell, 1877The sick man is the parasite of society.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1889Without doubt God is the universal moving force, but each being is moved according to the nature that God has given it. He directs angels, man, animals, brute matter, in sum all created things—but each according to its nature—and man having been created free, he is freely led. This rule is truly the eternal law and in it we must believe.
—Joseph de Maistre, 1821God walks among the pots and pans.
—Saint Teresa of Ávila, c. 1582Little folks become their little fate.
—Horace, c. 20 BC