That sweet bondage which is freedom’s self.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1813
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Vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
—Ecclesiastes, c. 250 BCThe more laws, the more lawbreakers.
—Tao Te Ching, c. 500 BCIt is He who has subdued the ocean so that you may eat of its fresh fish and bring up from its depth ornaments to wear. Behold the ships plowing their course through it. All this, that you may seek His bounty and render thanks.
—The Qur’an, c. 625Doctors don’t know everything really. They understand matter, not spirit. And you and I live in spirit.
—William Saroyan, 1943I love everyone now that I have gray hair.
—Polatkin, c. 1855All the daughters of music shall be brought low.
—Ecclesiastes, c. 400 BCAttend to earth,
for it is to earth that kings are truly wedded.
The law is established from above but becomes custom below.
—Su Zhe, c. 1100The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
—Yves Saint Laurent, 1978Television is democracy at its ugliest.
—Paddy Chayefsky, 1976He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1833Friends are fictions founded on some single momentary experience.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1864