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Time will reveal everything. It is a babbler and speaks even when not asked.

—Euripides, c. 425 BC

The planet keeps to the astronomer’s timetable, but the wind still bloweth almost where it listeth.

—John Henry Poynting, 1899

There must be quite a few things a hot bath won’t cure, but I don’t know many of them.

—Sylvia Plath, 1963

I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.

—Ray Bradbury, 1992

Friendship! Sir, there can be no such thing without an equality.

—George Farquhar, 1702

Sport is the bloom and glow of a perfect health.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1838

Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.

—Pericles, c. 431 BC

The play is the tragedy “Man,” And its hero the conqueror worm.

—Edgar Allan Poe, 1843

Laughter almost ever cometh of things most disproportioned to ourselves and nature. Laughter hath only a scornful tickling.

—Philip Sidney, 1582

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens. 

—Abraham Lincoln

Life is the art of being well deceived.

—William Hazlitt, c. 1817

The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified heads, fills citified ears—as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk happy.

—Frank Lloyd Wright, 1958

What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.

—Voltaire, 1723