Some nights are like honey—and some like wine—and some like wormwood.
—L.M. Montgomery, 1927
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The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.
—Edward, Duke of Windsor, 1957When one has a famishing thirst for happiness, one is apt to gulp down diversions wherever they are offered.
—Alice Hegan Rice, 1917It costs a lot to make a person look this cheap.
—Dolly Parton, 1994Friendship! Sir, there can be no such thing without an equality.
—George Farquhar, 1702I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
—Anaïs Nin, 1950No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
—Abraham LincolnWhy has the government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.
—Alexander Hamilton, 1787Nothing puzzles me more than time and space, and yet nothing puzzles me less, for I never think about them.
—Charles Lamb, 1810I was born at a very early age. Before I had time to regret it, I was four and a half years old.
—Groucho Marx, 1959The young man must store up, the old man must use.
—Seneca the Younger, c. 63Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve and from which he cannot escape.
—Erich Fromm, 1947There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.
—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1898