All the married heiresses I have known have shipwrecked.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1880
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A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
—Stendhal, 1822The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
—L.P. Hartley, 1953A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.
—Aldous Huxley, 1934It is remarkable that only small birds properly sing.
—Charles Darwin, 1871Rivalry adds so much to the charms of one’s conquests.
—Louisa May Alcott, 1866The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases. We go on a journey chiefly to be free of all impediments and of all inconveniences—to leave ourselves behind, much more to get rid of others.
—William Hazlitt, 1822To put one’s trust in God is only a longer way of saying that one will chance it.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1890All attempts to adapt our ethical code to our situation in the technological age have failed.
—Max Born, 1968If you would help another man, you must do so in minute particulars.
—William Blake, 1804The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.
—Agnes Repplier, 1929To need to dominate others is to need others. The commander is dependent.
—Fernando Pessoa, c. 1935Enemies to me are the sauce piquant to my dish of life.
—Elsa Maxwell, 1955