The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
—Basho, c. 1690
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What will not attract a man’s stare at sea?—a gull, a turtle, a flying fish!
—Richard Burton, 1883Who sleepeth with dogs shall rise with fleas.
—John Florio, 1578There is only one antidote to mental suffering and that is physical pain.
—Karl Marx, 1860Mother died today. Or maybe it was yesterday, I don’t know.
—Albert Camus, 1942We die of comfort and by conflict live.
—May Sarton, 1953I have often been convinced that a democracy is incapable of empire.
—Thucydides, c. 404 BCSpeak and speed; the close mouth catches no flies.
—Benjamin Franklin, c. 1732Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it.
—Robert Wilson, 1991Usually speaking, the worst-bred person in company is a young traveler just returned from abroad.
—Jonathan Swift, c. 1730When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.
—Eugene V. Debs, 1918Two crimes undid me: a poem and a mistake.
—Ovid, 10Politics is the art of the possible.
—Otto von Bismarck, 1867