Years are nothing to me—they should be nothing to you. Who asked you to count them or to consider them? In the world of wild nature, time is measured by seasons only—the bird does not know how old it is—the rose tree does not count its birthdays!
—Marie Corelli, 1911
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Best is water.
—Pindar, 476 BCI cannot live without books, but fewer will suffice where amusement, and not use, is the only future object.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1815I’m at an age when my back goes out more than I do.
—Phyllis Diller, 1981It was funny how I could feel all alone and under surveillance at the same time.
—Cory Doctorow, 2013One race there is of men, one of gods, but from one mother we both draw our breath.
—Pindar, c. 450 BCMemory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth but not its twin.
—Barbara Kingsolver, 1990Information can tell us everything. It has all the answers. But they are answers to questions we have not asked, and which doubtless don’t even arise.
—Jean Baudrillard, c. 1987Bright youth passes as quickly as thought.
—Theognis, c. 550 BCReal education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing—the rest is mere sheep herding.
—Ezra Pound, 1934You are dust, and to dust you shall return.
—Book of Genesis, c. 800 BCLife 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, 1857Who draws his sword against his prince must throw away the scabbard.
—James Howell, 1659