I tell you, there is such a thing as creative hate!
—Willa Cather, 1915
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The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
—Ecclesiastes, c. 250 BCEducation—a debt due from present to future generations.
—George Peabody, 1852The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a star.
—Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, 1825There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink.
—Booth Tarkington, 1914One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
—Virginia Woolf, 1929Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.
—Paul Valéry, 1943I 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, 1929The young man must store up, the old man must use.
—Seneca the Younger, c. 63No free man shall be taken or imprisoned or dispossessed or outlawed or exiled, or in any way destroyed, nor will we go upon him, nor will we send against him except by the lawful judgment of his peers or by the law of the land.
—Magna Carta, 1215The hatred of relatives is the bitterest.
—Tacitus, 117Luck is believing you’re lucky.
—William Carlos Williams, 1947