Happiness is not something you can catch and lock up in a vault like wealth. Happiness is nothing but everyday living seen through a veil.
—Zora Neale Hurston, 1939
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There ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.
—Mark Twain, 1894Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented.
—Willem de Kooning, 1949Methinks the human method of expression by sound of tongue is very elementary and ought to be substituted for some ingenious invention which should be able to give vent to at least six coherent sentences at once.
—Virginia Woolf, 1899A miracle drug is any drug that will do what the label says it will do.
—Eric Hodgins, 1964An unjust law is no law at all.
—Saint Augustine, 395The elephant, although a gross beast, is yet the most decent and most sensible of any other upon earth. Although he never changes his female, and hath so tender a love for her whom he hath chosen, yet he never couples with her but at the end of every three years, and then only for the space of five days.
—St. Francis de Sales, 1609Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1920Language is the archives of history.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844The belly is the teacher of the arts and bestower of invention.
—Persius, c. 55To hide and feel guilty would be the beginning of defeat.
—Milan Kundera, 1978Can you take your country with you on the soles of your shoes?
—Georg Büchner, 1835Under all speech that is good for anything, there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as eternity; speech is shallow as time.
—Thomas Carlyle, 1838