I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
—Susan Sontag, 1977
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Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls, and sloth, or the Gout will seize you.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1734Friendship itself will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
—Robert Wilson Lynd, 1924The nature of God is a circle, of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere.
—Empedocles, c. 450 BCTo live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education.
—John Buchan, 1940Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.
—Gertrude Stein, 1940If a parricide is more wicked than anyone who commits homicide—because he kills not merely a man but a near relative—without doubt worse still is he who kills himself, because there is none nearer to a man than himself.
—Saint Augustine, c. 420The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
—Saint Augustine, c. 390We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.
—Anna Sewell, 1877A crust of bread and a corner to sleep in / A minute to smile and an hour to weep in.
—Paul Laurence Dunbar, 1895Those who know the joys and miseries of celebrities when they have passed the age of forty know how to defend themselves.
—Sarah Bernhardt, 1904Man is merely a more perfect animal than the rest. He reasons better.
—Napoleon Bonaparte, 1816God walks among the pots and pans.
—Saint Teresa of Ávila, c. 1582