It is better to live unknown to the law.
—Irish proverb
Archive
Quotes
Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height.
—E.M. Forster, 1910I have been ever of the opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1844By night an atheist half believes a God.
—Edward Young, c. 1745To be too conscious is an illness—a real thoroughgoing illness.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1864When the physician said to him, “You have lived to be an old man,” he said, “That is because I never employed you as my physician.”
—Pausanias, c. 450 BCDo not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.
—Maya Angelou, 1986A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
—Ouida, 1880To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.
—Walter Pater, 1873We are to go to law never to revenge, but only to repair.
—Samuel Pepys, 1661In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.
—V.S. Pritchett, 1968Water, thou hast no taste, no color, no odor; canst not be defined, art relished while ever mysterious.
—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 1939