Drink today and drown all sorrow; / You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow.
—John Fletcher, 1625
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The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
—Aristotle, c. 330 BCThere is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.
—Kathleen Norris, 1931Sic semper tyrannis! The South is avenged.
—John Wilkes Booth, 1865’Tis not a ridiculous devotion to say a prayer before a game at tables?
—Thomas Browne, 1642Art imitates nature as well as it can, as a pupil follows his master; thus it is a sort of grandchild of God.
—Dante, c. 1315Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it, for it is a faculty of the psyche.
—Germaine Greer, 1970Everyone should know nowadays the unimportance of the photographic in art—that truth, life, or reality is an organic thing which the poetic imagination can represent or suggest, in essence, only through transformation, through changing into other forms than those which were merely present in appearance.
—Tennessee Williams, 1944Is all our fire of shipwreck wood?
—Robert Browning, 1862What hath night to do with sleep?
—John Milton, 1637The atavistic urge toward danger persists and its satisfaction is called adventure.
—John Steinbeck, 1941I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
—Galileo Galilei, 1615I curse the night, yet doth from day me hide.
—William Drummond, 1616