Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.
—Jane Austen, 1815
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I am sick and tired of publicity. I want no more of it. It puts me in a bad light. I just want to be forgotten.
—Al Capone, 1929Why is not a rat as good as a rabbit? Why should men eat shrimps and neglect cockroaches?
—Henry Ward Beecher, 1862The future...something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
—C.S. Lewis, 1941I was born at a very early age. Before I had time to regret it, I was four and a half years old.
—Groucho Marx, 1959Hatred of domestic work is a natural and admirable result of civilization.
—Rebecca West, 1912Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
—Pablo Neruda, 1924Do not lessen the time of following desire, for the wasting of time is an abomination to the spirit.
—Ptahhotep, c. 2350 BCA false report rides post.
—English proverbNew things are always ugly.
—Willa Cather, 1921Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.
—George Eliot, 1857All the world is topsy-turvy, and it has been topsy-turvy ever since the plague.
—Jack London, 1912Cooking is the most massive rush. It’s like having the most amazing hard-on, with Viagra sprinkled on top of it, and it’s still there twelve hours later.
—Gordon Ramsey, 2003