I always think of nature as a great spectacle, somewhat resembling the opera.
—Bernard de Fontenelle, 1686
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We die of comfort and by conflict live.
—May Sarton, 1953Those who travel heedlessly from place to place, observing only their distance from each other and attending only to their accommodation at the inn at night, set out fools, and will certainly return so.
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 1747Music today is nothing more than the art of performing difficult pieces.
—Voltaire, 1759Nature never breaks her own laws.
—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1500Yes to a market economy, no to a market society.
—Lionel Jospin, 1998There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.
—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1898A bad reputation is easy to come by, painful to bear, and difficult to clear.
—Hesiod, c. 700 BCIf there is a word in the dictionary under any letter from A to Z that I abominate, it is energy.
—Charles Dickens, 1865Hospitality consists in a little fire, a little food, and an immense quiet.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1856The world began without man, and it will end without him.
—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1955Life isn’t all beer and skittles, but beer and skittles, or something better of the same sort, must form a good part of every Englishman’s education.
—Thomas Hughes, 1857I have often said that if I wish to name-drop, I have only to list my ex-friends.
—Norman Podhoretz, 1999