Every house: temple, empire, school.
—Joseph Joubert, 1800
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I never practice, I always play.
—Wanda Landowska, 1953Friendship! Sir, there can be no such thing without an equality.
—George Farquhar, 1702I think that to get under the surface and really appreciate the beauty of any country, one has to go there poor.
—Grace Moore, 1944One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats.
—Iris Murdoch, 1978Gossip isn’t scandal and it’s not merely malicious. It’s chatter about the human race by lovers of the same.
—Phyllis McGinley, 1957Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it, and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, c. 1790I have a terrible memory; I never forget a thing.
—Edith Konecky, 1976Drinking with women is as unnatural as scolding with ’em.
—William Wycherley, 1675A regime which combines perpetual surveillance with total indulgence is hardly conducive to healthy development.
—P.D. James, 1992Language is the house of being. In its home human beings dwell. Those who think and those who create with words are the guardians of this home.
—Martin Heidegger, 1949He laughs best who laughs last.
—French proverbWhatever the pace of this technological revolution may be, the direction is clear: the lower rungs of the economic ladder are being lopped off.
—Bayard Rustin, 1965