Whenever there is excess, an ax remedies it.
—Sumerian proverb
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I work for a government I despise for ends I think criminal.
—John Maynard Keynes, 1917I never practice, I always play.
—Wanda Landowska, 1953The seeds of civilization are in every culture, but it is city life that brings them to fruition.
—Susanne K. Langer, 1962When man wanted to make a machine that would walk, he created the wheel, which does not resemble a leg.
—Guillaume Apollinaire, 1917Of troubles none is greater than to be robbed of one’s native land.
—Euripides, 431 BCIron may break gold, but water remains whole.
—Ge Hong, c. 300You can’t find the soul with a scalpel.
—Gustave Flaubert, c. 1880It is far, far better and much safer to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.
—John Kenneth Galbraith, 1958The men of today are born to criticize; of Achilles they see only the heel.
—Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, 1880The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
—L.P. Hartley, 1953A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
—George Eliot, 1876There 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, 2008