I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
—Susan Sontag, 1977
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Man has here two and a half minutes—one to smile, one to sigh, and half a one to love; for in the midst of this minute he dies.
—Jean Paul, 1795I have learned much from disease which life could never have taught me anywhere else.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1830God is our father, but even more is God our mother.
—Pope John Paul I, 1978Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever lays one down without a feeling of disappointment.
—Charles Lamb, 1833What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.
—Voltaire, 1723Real friends offer both hard truths and soft landings.
—Anna Quindlen, 2012Democracy cannot be static. Whatever is static is dead.
—Eleanor Roosevelt, 1942I never yet could make out why men are so fond of hunting; they often hurt themselves, often spoil good horses, and tear up the fields—and all for a hare or a fox or a stag that they could get more easily some other way.
—Anna Sewell, 1877Language is the archives of history.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
—Zsa Zsa GaborWhatever the pace of this technological revolution may be, the direction is clear: the lower rungs of the economic ladder are being lopped off.
—Bayard Rustin, 1965Fortune resists half-hearted prayers.
—Ovid, 8