Every man takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851
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Alas! We are ridiculous animals.
—Horace Walpole, 1777God walks among the pots and pans.
—Saint Teresa of Ávila, c. 1582Labor is no disgrace.
—Hesiod, c. 700 BCThe Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin.
—Heinrich Heine, 1827There’s folks ’ud hold a sieve under the pump and expect to carry away the water.
—George Eliot, 1859One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
—E.B. White, 1977God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
—John Lennon, 1970We should not say that one man’s hour is worth another man’s hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing; he is, at most, time’s carcass.
—Karl Marx, 1847History in its broadest aspect is a record of man’s migrations from one environment to another.
—Ellsworth Huntington, 1919I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king.
—Elizabeth I, 1588As is the face, so is the mind.
—Roman proverbThe world is dying of machinery; that is the great disease, that is the plague that will sweep away and destroy civilization; man will have to rise against it sooner or later.
—George Moore, 1888