Is it only the mouth and belly which are injured by hunger and thirst? Men’s minds are also injured by them.
—Mencius, 300 BC
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The young always have the same problem—how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their elders and copying one another.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968I curse the night, yet doth from day me hide.
—William Drummond, 1616To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel that discernment is but a hand playing with finely ordered variety on the chords of emotion—a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge. One may have that condition by fits only.
—George Eliot, c. 1872Of my friends, I am the only one I have left.
—Terence, 161 BCI have loved war too well.
—Louis XIV, 1715As natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection.
—Charles Darwin, 1859Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea? How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.
—Sydney Smith, 1855He who sings frightens away his ills.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605I have loved the stars too truly to be fearful of the night.
—Sarah Williams, 1868Friendship is a plant that loves the sun—thrives ill under clouds.
—Bronson Alcott, 1872We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink, for dining alone is leading the life of a lion or wolf.
—Epicurus, c. 300 BCThere is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1891