How sweet it is to have people point and say, “There he is.”
—Persius, c. 60
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God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.
—J.M. Barrie, 1922We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink, for dining alone is leading the life of a lion or wolf.
—Epicurus, c. 300 BCSuch then is the human state, that to wish greatness for one’s country is to wish harm to one’s neighbors.
—Voltaire, 1764I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.
—Ray Bradbury, 1992How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort in a hospital.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1857Those who believe in freedom of the will have never loved and never hated.
—Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, 1893When you drink water, think of its source.
—Chinese proverbAnyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 30 BCBeing thus arrived in good harbor, and brought safe to land, they fell upon their knees and blessed the God of heaven who had brought them over the vast and furious ocean and delivered them from all the perils and miseries thereof, again to set their feet on the firm and stale earth, their proper element.
—William Bradford, 1630There is no method by which men can be both free and equal.
—Walter Bagehot, 1863Communities do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1863Now there is fame! Of all—hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public—fame is by far the worst. It is the castigation by God of the artist. It is sad. It is true.
—Pablo Picasso, c. 1961