We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us but for ours to amuse them.
—Evelyn Waugh, 1963
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The home is a human institution. All human institutions are open to improvement.
—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1903I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
—Anaïs Nin, 1950Time will reveal everything. It is a babbler and speaks even when not asked.
—Euripides, c. 425 BCAll things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
—Plotinus, c. 255An honest man is all right even if he’s an idiot…but a crook must have brains.
—Maxim Gorky, 1902Business? Why, it’s very simple; business is other people’s money.
—Alexandre Dumas, 1857How can we bear misfortune most easily? If we see our enemies faring worse.
—Thales of Miletus, c. 585 BCTo know intense joy without a strong bodily frame, one must have an enthusiastic soul.
—George Eliot, 1872Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth. Suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully.
—Julie Burchill, 1986The brightest light burns the quickest.
—Olive Beatrice Muir, 1900The dead are often just as living to us as the living are, only we cannot get them to believe it. They can come to us, but till we die we cannot go to them. To be dead is to be unable to understand that one is alive.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1888Man has here two and a half minutes—one to smile, one to sigh, and half a one to love; for in the midst of this minute he dies.
—Jean Paul, 1795