Happiness is not something you can catch and lock up in a vault like wealth. Happiness is nothing but everyday living seen through a veil.
—Zora Neale Hurston, 1939
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When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.
—Chinese proverbIf the people be the governors, who shall be governed?
—John Cotton, c. 1636One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat eight hours a day, nor drink for eight hours a day, nor make love for eight hours.
—William Faulkner, 1958The thirsty earth soaks up the rain, / And drinks, and gapes for drink again.
—Abraham Cowley, 1656The physician should look upon the patient as a besieged city and try to rescue him with every means that art and science place at his command.
—Alexander of Tralles, c. 600Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a centaur, a leopard, a wolf, or a bull?
—Aristophanes, 423 BCThere’s hope a great man’s memory may outlive his life half a year.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1600Fear is the foundation of most governments.
—John Adams, 1776The twilight is the crack between the worlds.
—Carlos Castaneda, 1968All that we know is nothing can be known.
—Lord Byron, 1812If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.
—Dorothy ParkerI would delight in music, but the music is discordant.
—Xie Lingyun, c. 425