Refrigerators and television sets, or even rockets sent to the moon, do not change man into God.
—Czesław Miłosz, 1960
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The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1615No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.
—Samuel Johnson, 1776Friendship’s a noble name, ’tis love refined.
—Susanna Centlivre, 1703All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.
—Havelock Ellis, 1921Alone, alone, all, all alone, / Alone on a wide, wide sea!
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1798There is no happiness like that of a young couple in a little house they have built themselves in a place of beauty and solitude.
—Annie Proulx, 2008Let my epitaph be, “Here lies Joseph, who failed in everything he undertook.”
—Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II, 1790Is it only the mouth and belly which are injured by hunger and thirst? Men’s minds are also injured by them.
—Mencius, 300 BCIf you have any soul worth expressing, it will show itself in your singing.
—John Ruskin, 1865There is no man so fortunate that there shall not be by him when he is dying some who are pleased with what is going to happen.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 175Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It’s what separates us from the animals—except the weasel.
—The Simpsons, 1993A merchant may, perhaps, be a man of an enlarged mind, but there is nothing in trade connected with an enlarged mind.
—Samuel Johnson, 1773