Real friends offer both hard truths and soft landings.
—Anna Quindlen, 2012
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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
—Gertrude Stein, 1937Our crime against criminals is that we treat them as villains.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1898Thanks to the interstate highway system, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything.
—Charles Kuralt, c. 1980There are two times in a man’s life when he should not speculate: when he can’t afford it, and when he can.
—Mark Twain, 1897What timid man does not avoid contact with the sick, fearing lest he contract a disease so near?
—Ovid, c. 10The more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation.
—Plato, c. 375 BCHow gloriously legible are the constellations of the heavens!
—Anthony Trollope, 1859Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1928Don’t hit a man at all if you can avoid it, but if you have to hit him, knock him out.
—Theodore Roosevelt, 1916Whatsoever is, is in God.
—Benedict de Spinoza, 1677Seaward ho! Hang the treasure! It’s the glory of the sea that has turned my head.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1883He that would eat the nut must crack the shell.
—Plautus, c. 200 BC