Revolution begins in putting on bright colors.
—Tennessee Williams, 1944
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By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.
—Confucius, c. 500 BCFor what do we live but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?
—Jane Austen, 1813When the physician said to him, “You have lived to be an old man,” he said, “That is because I never employed you as my physician.”
—Pausanias, c. 450 BCIf a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.
—Francis Bacon, 1625A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.
—Jane Austen, 1814The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
—H.G. Wells, 1905All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
—Aristotle, c. 330 BCOil dependency is not just an economic attachment but appears as a kind of cognitive compulsion.
—Peter Hitchcock, 2010They say that gifts persuade even the gods.
—Euripides, 431 BCIf you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.
—Dorothy ParkerTime’s violence rends the soul; by the rent eternity enters.
—Simone Weil, 1947Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1928