Friends are fictions founded on some single momentary experience.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1864
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I hate the sight of monkeys; they remind me so of poor relations.
—Henry Luttrell, 1820If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar, and will not leave it, why keep the door so very carefully shut?
—Olive Schreiner, 1883Most vegetarians I ever saw looked enough like their food to be classed as cannibals.
—Finley Peter Dunne, 1900Speech is the mirror of the soul; as a man speaks, so is he.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BCEverything that deceives does so by casting a spell.
—Plato, c. 375 BCBeing offended is the natural consequence of leaving one’s home.
—Fran Lebowitz, 1981Do not fear the clatter of wheels, the bumps and slops in corridors. It is only turbulence.
—Romalyn Ante, 2020I came upon no wine, / So wonderful as thirst.
—Edna St. Vincent Millay, 1923Enemies to me are the sauce piquant to my dish of life.
—Elsa Maxwell, 1955Money is mourned with deeper sorrow than friends or kindred.
—Juvenal, 128Every man must descend into the flesh to meet mankind.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1910To outwit an enemy is not only just and glorious but profitable and sweet.
—Plutarch, c. 100